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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[ noun ] (law) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
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[ noun ] a prior appropriation of something
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[ noun ] the right to purchase something in advance of others
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