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Preemption

//priːˈɛmpʃən// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A township and census-designated place therein, in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:; The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a prior appropriation of something wordnet
  3. 3
    An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:; The purchase of public land by the occupant. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the right to purchase something in advance of others wordnet
  5. 5
    An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:; The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) wordnet
  2. 7
    An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:; The supersession of a conflicting law from a lower jurisdiction by an overlapping law from a higher jurisdiction. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin praeēmptiō (“previous purchase”), from praeemō (“buy before”), from Latin prae- (“before”) + emō (“buy”).

Etymology 2

From the American spelling of pre-emption.

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