Preemption - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˌprɪˈempʃən|
Brit.
|ˌprɪˈempʃən|
noun
- the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject (syn: pre-emption)
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) (syn: pre-emption)
- the right to purchase something in advance of others (syn: pre-emption)
- a prior appropriation of something (syn: pre-emption)
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) (syn: pre-emption)
- the right to purchase something in advance of others (syn: pre-emption)
- a prior appropriation of something (syn: pre-emption)
the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests
Extra examples
...longtime residents resented the preemption of their urban neighborhood by this influx of affluent yuppies...
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