preemption has definitions from the field of law
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[ noun ] (law) the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

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pre-emption

Related terms

legal_right

2
[ noun ] (law) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

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pre-emption

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legal_principle law

3
[ noun ] a prior appropriation of something

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pre-emption

Examples

"the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"

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appropriation preempt

4
[ noun ] the right to purchase something in advance of others

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pre-emption

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