pre-emption

noun 2 syllables 11 letters Scrabble 16 WWF 20

Definitions

noun

the right to purchase something in advance of others

noun

a prior appropriation of something

noun

the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

noun

the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

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