| 单词 | preemption |
| 释义 | preemption (once / 35817 pages) n WORD FAMILY preemption: preemptions+/preempt: preempted, preempting, preemption, preemptive, preemptor, preempts/preemptive: preemptively/preemptor: preemptors USAGE EXAMPLESOften the mere possibility or threat of state preemption is used as grounds to stop a duly qualified initiative from being voted on. Salon(Oct 30, 2016) The point of all this elasticity is pattern preemption—to destabilize players who’d otherwise slip into comfortable ruts. Time(Oct 25, 2016) “We should have a euphemism for ‘preemption,’ ” commented one former senior U.S. official at the conference here. Washington Post(Oct 13, 2016) 1n the right to purchase something in advance of others Syn|Hypo|Hyper pre-emption 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 pre-emption legal right a right based in law 3n the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject Syn|Hyper pre-emption judicial doctrine, judicial principle, legal principle (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence 4n a prior appropriation of something the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests Syn|Hyper pre-emption appropriation a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner |
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