Look up: preemption

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   Preemption
   Preemption is a township in Mercer County Illinois, USA
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   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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   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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   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 buying provisions for his household in preference to others. [ Eng.] (b) The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the ...
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   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 certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all oth ...
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   preemption
   pre-emption noun a prior appropriation of something; `the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests`
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   preemption
   pre-emption noun the right to purchase something in advance of others
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   preemption
   pre-emption noun the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
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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 purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in prefe...
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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 ...
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