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    preemption
    pre-emption noun the right to purchase something in advance of others
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=preemption
    
    
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    preemption
    pre-emption noun the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=preemption
    
    
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    Preemption
    • (n.) The act or right of purchasing before others. • (n.) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others. • (n.) The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to pu...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/preemption/
    
    
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    preemption
    in U.S. history, policy by which first settlers, or `squatters,` on public lands could purchase the property they had improved. Squatters who settled ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/107
    
    
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    Preemption
    [computing] In computing, preemption (more correctly pre-emption) is the act of temporarily interrupting a task being carried out by a computer system, without requiring its cooperation, and with the intention of resuming the task at a later time. Such a change is known as a context switch. ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemption_(computing)
    
    
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    Preemption
    In United States, Federal law is the supreme law with highest authority. When there is a conflict between the Federal law and state law, the Federal law is said to preempt - win over - state law thereby displacing the effect of the state law. That`s known as premption..
    Found op http://www.legal-explanations.com/definitions/preemption.htm
    
    
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    preemption
    n. the rule of law that if the federal government through Congress has enacted legislation on a subject matter it shall be controlling over state laws and/or preclude the state from enacting laws on the same subject if Congress has specifically stated it has "occupied the field." If Congress has not...
    Found op http://dictionary.law.com/Default.xhtml?selected=1575
    
    
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    preemption
    1) Judicial doctrine 2) Judicial principle 3) Legal principle 4) Pre-emption 5) Township in mercer county illinois, usa
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/preemption/1
    
    

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