Look up: preemption

1. preemption
   [n] - the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject 2. [n] - the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) 3. [n] - the right to purchase something in advance of others 4. [n] - a prior appropriation of something
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2. preemption
   the practice of a network or station in taking over a previously scheduled time period for a special program in the 'public interest' convenience or necessity. Also recapture. Category: General
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3. Preëmption
   Pre·ëmp'tion noun [ Prefix pre- + emption : confer French préemption . See Redeem .] The act or right of purchasing before others. Specifically: (a) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buyi...
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4. preemption
   The act or right of purchasing before others. Specifically: ... The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others. ... The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certa...
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5. preemption
   pre-emption noun a prior appropriation of something; `the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests`
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6. preemption
   pre-emption noun the right to purchase something in advance of others
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7. preemption
   pre-emption noun the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
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8. 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...
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9. 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 ...
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10. 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..
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11. 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...
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12. Preemption
    (computing) In computing, `preemption` (sometimes `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. It...
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