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Meaning of preemption


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  preemption
      n 1: the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal
           over state legislation on the same subject [syn:
           {preemption}, {pre-emption}]
      2: the right of a government to seize or appropriate something
         (as property) [syn: {preemption}, {pre-emption}]
      3: the right to purchase something in advance of others [syn:
         {preemption}, {pre-emption}]
      4: a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of
         bandwidth by commercial interests" [syn: {preemption}, {pre-
         emption}]


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