Search Result:pre-emption
Overview of noun pre-emption
The noun pre-emption has 4 senses
- preemption, pre-emption -- (the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject)
- preemption, pre-emption -- (the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property))
- preemption, pre-emption -- (the right to purchase something in advance of others)
- preemption, pre-emption -- (a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests")