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Pre-emption   /pri-ˈɛmpʃən/   Listen
Pre-emption

noun
1.
The judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject.  Synonym: preemption.
2.
The right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property).  Synonym: preemption.
3.
The right to purchase something in advance of others.  Synonym: preemption.
4.
A prior appropriation of something.  Synonym: preemption.






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"Pre-emption" Quotes from Famous Books



... lizards on the fifth day, and man on the sixth day. If geologists are right, the earth was a million of years in the possession of the insects, beasts, and birds before our race came upon it. In one sense we were innovators. The cattle, the lizards, and the hawks had pre-emption right. The question is not what we are to do with the lizards and summer insects, but what the lizards and summer insects are to do with us. If we want a place in this world, we must earn it. The partridge makes its own nest before it occupies ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage



Words linked to "Pre-emption" :   judicial principle, judicial doctrine, appropriation, subscription right, legal right, law, preemptive right, legal principle, preemption, jurisprudence, right



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