Associations to the word «Preemption»
Noun
- Congress
- Implement
- Ammunition
- Right
- Court
- Commerce
- Alien
- Provision
- Pregnancy
- Exception
- Discrimination
- Update
- Sport
- Prevention
- Benefit
- Insurance
- Improvement
- Ban
- Quantity
- Treaty
- Broadcast
- Threat
- Limit
- Carry
- Possession
- Limitation
- Massachusetts
- Transportation
- Saturday
- Immigration
- Fed
- Authority
- Delay
- Objective
- Ownership
- Cigarette
- Absence
- Section
- Case
- Fox
- Requirement
- Con
- Amendment
- Favor
- Context
- Employee
- Settlement
- Permit
- Vehicle
- Transaction
- Security
- Transit
- Asset
- Constitution
- Timber
- Framework
- Scheme
- Boundary
- Resource
- Program
- Extent
- Sale
- Device
- State
- Territory
- News
- Basis
- Louisiana
- Railroad
- Strategy
- Price
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
PREEMPTION, noun. The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
PREEMPTION, noun. The purchase of public land by the occupant.
PREEMPTION, noun. (computing) The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
PREEMPTION, noun. (law) The displacement of a lower jurisdiction's laws when they conflict with those of a higher jurisdiction.
PREËMPTION, noun. Alternative spelling of preemption
Dictionary definition
PREEMPTION, noun. The judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject.
PREEMPTION, noun. The right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property).
PREEMPTION, noun. The right to purchase something in advance of others.
PREEMPTION, noun. A prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.