Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pre-emption

4 senses of pre-emption

Sense 1
preemption, pre-emption -- (the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject)
       => legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine -- ((law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence)

Sense 2
preemption, pre-emption -- (the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property))
       => legal right -- (a right based in law)

Sense 3
preemption, pre-emption -- (the right to purchase something in advance of others)
       => right -- (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away")

Sense 4
preemption, pre-emption -- (a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests")
       => appropriation -- (a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest")