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preemption

DEFINITIONS OF: preemption

1

n the right to purchase something in advance of others

Synonyms:
pre-emption
Types:
preemptive right
the right granting to shareholders the first opportunity to buy a new issue of stock; provides protection against dilution of the shareholder's ownership interest
subscription right
the right of a shareholder in a company to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before it is offered to the public
Type of:
right
an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature

n the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

Synonyms:
pre-emption
Type of:
legal right
a right based in law

n the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

Synonyms:
pre-emption
Type of:
judicial doctrine, judicial principle, legal principle
(law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence

n a prior appropriation of something

“the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests”
Synonyms:
pre-emption
Type of:
appropriation
a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner
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