| 单词 | pre-emption |
| 释义 | pre-emption (once / 37522 pages) n WORD FAMILY pre-empt: pre-emption, pre-emptive, pre-emptor USAGE EXAMPLES“It will probably depend on whether President-elect Trump’s administration exercises pre-emption, which means that federal law outweighs state laws,” Egan said. Washington Times(Dec 18, 2016) More than a dozen states have passed similar so-called pre-emption laws regarding minimum wage. Washington Times(Nov 13, 2016) Crucially, the cash call will not reserve any pre-emption rights to existing shareholders, who effectively risk losing almost all of their investment. Reuters(Oct 25, 2016) 1n the right to purchase something in advance of others Syn|Hypo|Hyper preemption preemptive right the right granting to shareholders the first opportunity to buy a new issue of stock; provides protection against dilution of the shareholder's ownership interest subscription rightthe right of a shareholder in a company to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before it is offered to the public right an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature 2n the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) Syn|Hyper preemption legal right a right based in law 3n a prior appropriation of something Syn|Hyper preemption appropriation a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner 4n the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject Syn|Hyper preemption judicial doctrine, judicial principle, legal principle (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
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