emptive

Adjective

1. Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand).
   • Mike Malone recalls how the shaving of his fiancée's head was more of an “emptive” strike, since her hair was already on its way out. - 2004, Marc Silver, Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself)...
   • Emptive priority: The service to non-priority customer is stopped as soon as a priority customer arrives. - 2006, A. M. Natarajan, P. Balasubramani, Operations Research, Dorling Kindersley, published 2009, →ISBN, page...
   • This situation can be dealt with either in an emptive or pre-emptive fashion. In an emptive system the new entry waits for the other to be completed before beginning. In a pre-emptive system the queue can stop the...