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name
A township and census-designated place therein, in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:
The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:
The purchase of public land by the occupant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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Synonyms: occupancy
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noun
a prior appropriation of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pre-emption
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Broader terms: appropriation
noun
the right to purchase something in advance of others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pre-emption
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Broader terms: right
Narrower terms: preemptive right, subscription right
noun
the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pre-emption
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Broader terms: legal right
noun
the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pre-emption
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Broader terms: legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine
History
From the American spelling of pre-emption.
From Medieval Latin praeēmptiō (“previous purchase”), from praeemō (“buy before”), from Latin prae- (“before”) + emō (“buy”).
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
