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pre-emption
English
- 🔊 a prior appropriation of something“the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests”
- 🔊 the right to purchase something in advance of others
- 🔊 the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
- 🔊 the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject