pre-emption   (TTS Sound)

The noun pre-emption has 4 senses

• preemption, pre-emption -- (the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject)


• preemption, pre-emption -- (the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property))


• preemption, pre-emption -- (the right to purchase something in advance of others)


• preemption, pre-emption -- (a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests")