pre-emption
1. the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject • Syn: preemption • Topics: law, jurisprudence • Hypernyms: legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine 2. the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) • Syn: preemption • Hypernyms: legal right 3. the right to purchase something in advance of others • Syn: preemption • Derivationally related forms: preempt (for: preemption) • Hypernyms: right • Hyponyms: preemptive right, subscription right 4. a prior appropriation of something - the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests • Syn: preemption • Derivationally related forms: preempt (for: preemption) • Hypernyms: appropriation
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