Definitions for preemption
Overview of noun preemption
The noun preemption has 4 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. preemption, pre-emption
(the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject)
2. preemption, pre-emption
(the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property))
3. preemption, pre-emption
(the right to purchase something in advance of others)
4. preemption, pre-emption
(a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests")
