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pre-emption

[pri'empʃn]
  • n. 优先购买权;收买权

英英释意


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