Meaning & use
Preemptible
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Capable of being preempted, or interrupted and reassigned, especially before completion.
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The company uses preemptible cloud instances to cut computing costs, accepting that they may be reclaimed at any time.
The scheduling algorithm treats low-priority jobs as preemptible.
A note on using this word
The word is especially common in computer science, where "preemptible" tasks or virtual machines can be stopped by the system to free resources for higher-priority work.
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Words with an opposite meaning
non-preemptible
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