Preemption
nounid
103987·updated May 18, 2026verified
the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
polysemous
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- pre-emptionpreemption
- alternatephrasing
- Pre-Emption
- plural
- Preemptions
- possessive
- Preemption's
- pluralpossessive
- Preemptions'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a prior appropriation of something
- §2
- the right to purchase something in advance of others
- §3
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
- §4
- the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
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