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preemption
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Noun
  • a prior appropriation of something
    • the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests
  • the right to purchase something in advance of others
  • the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
  • the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
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