preemption

preemption is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or right of purchasing before others. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or right of purchasing before others.
2. noun. The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.
3. noun. The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.
4. noun. a prior appropriation of something

   "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"

5. noun. the right to purchase something in advance of others
6. noun. the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
7. noun. the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in preemption:

peremption

Common word forms

preemptions

Words from these letters

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