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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")