Defenition of the word pre-emption

• Defenition of the word pre-emption

  • The right of first refusal to purchase land in the event that the grantor of the right should decide to sell.
  • a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"
  • the right to purchase something in advance of others
  • the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
  • the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
  • a prior appropriation of something

Hyponyms for the word pre-emption

• • preemptive right
  • subscription right

Hypernyms for the word pre-emption

• • appropriation
  • judicial doctrine
  • judicial principle
  • legal principle
  • legal right
  • right

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