Found 1 items, similar to pre-emption.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pre-emption pre-emption n 1: the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject [syn: preemption] 2: the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) [syn: preemption] 3: the right to purchase something in advance of others [syn: preemption] 4: a prior appropriation of something; “the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests” [syn: preemption]