preemption
Nouns
- (n) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject pre-emption,
- (n) the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) pre-emption,
- (n) the right to purchase something in advance of others pre-emption,
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(n) a prior appropriation of something
- the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests