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pre-emption

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a prior appropriation of something

the right to purchase something in advance of others

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

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

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the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests Source: Internet

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