Preemption
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
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Senses
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a prior appropriation of something
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the right to purchase something in advance of others
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the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- pre-emptionpreemption
- alternatephrasing
- Pre-Emption
- plural
- Preemptions
- possessive
- Preemption's
- pluralpossessive
- Preemptions'