first refusal 
noun [mass noun]
The privilege of deciding whether to accept or reject something before it is offered to others: group employees have first refusal on the tickets...
- Executive members are thought likely to back the second option, under which Harrison would build 40 ‘affordable’ houses and sell them to a housing association which would offer existing tenants first refusal.
- They were offered first refusal at a price of $17, 000.00 for house and land.
- Being the affable man he is, he soon befriended local shopkeepers, and won their trust to be offered first refusal on any stock they were chucking out.
- evangelist
- evangelistic
- evangelization
- evangelize
- evangelizer
- evanish
- Evans, Dame Edith
- Evans, Gil
- Evans-Pritchard, Sir Edward
- Evans, Sir Arthur
- Evanston
- Evansville
- evap.
- evaporable
- evaporate
- evaporated milk
- evaporating dish
- evaporation
- evaporative
- evaporative cooling
- evaporatively
- evaporator
- evaporite
- evapotranspiration
- evapotranspirative