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preemption

English

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

Similar words

pre-emption pre-emption pre-emption pre-emption adoption appropriation arrogation assumption colonization conquest emption enslavement first option first refusal indent occupation option preoccupation prepossession refusal requisition right of emption right of preemption subjugation