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preemption

Length / number of characters: 10
Number of words: 1

  • the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
  • the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
  • the right to purchase something in advance of others
  • a prior appropriation of something
  • The act or right of purchasing before others
  • The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others
  • The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Illinois

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