pre-emption
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Definitions
                    Noun
                    
                the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
                
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                the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
                
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                the right to purchase something in advance of others
                
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            a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"