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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preemption \Pre*["e]mp"tion\ (?; 215), n. [Pref. pre- + emption: cf. F. pr['e]emption. See Redeem.] The act or right of purchasing before others. Specifically:
The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others. [Eng.]
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.
--Abbott.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others. 2 The purchase of public land by the occupant. 3 (context computing English) The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time. 4 (context law English) The displacement of a lower jurisdiction's laws when they conflict with those of a higher jurisdiction.
WordNet
n. the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject [syn: pre-emption]
the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) [syn: pre-emption]
the right to purchase something in advance of others [syn: pre-emption]
a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests" [syn: pre-emption]
Wikipedia
Preemption or pre-emption may refer to:
In computing, preemption is the act of temporarily interrupting a task being carried out by a computer system, without requiring its cooperation, and with the intention of resuming the task at a later time. Such changes of the executed task are known as context switches. It is normally carried out by a privileged task or part of the system known as a preemptive scheduler, which has the power to preempt, or interrupt, and later resume, other tasks in the system.
Preemption was a term used in the nineteenth century United States to refer to a settler's right to purchase public land at a federally set minimum price; it was a right of first refusal. Usually this was conferred to male heads of households who developed the property into a farm. If he was a citizen or was taking steps to become one and he and his family developed the land (buildings, fields, fences) he had the right to then buy that land for the minimum price. Land was otherwise sold through auction, typically at a price too high for these settlers. Preemption is similar to squatter's rights and mining claims.
Preemption was politically controversial, primarily among land speculators and their allies in government. In the early history of the United States, and even to some degree during the colonial era, settlers were moving into the "virgin wilderness" and building homes and farms without regard to land title. The improvements increased the value of all the nearby property. Eventually the political opposition by the speculators crumbled and the Preemption Act of 1841 was passed.
The Preemption Act of 1841 was abused by speculators who now operated as money lending businesses, or were able to coerce accomplices to falsely claim they were living on land that they wanted. A common example of the latter practice was in the logging industry in the upper Midwest, where mill workers who lived in mill towns made a preemption claim on timber land that would then be harvested by the mill owners. Another avenue of fraud was the Desert Land Act, which did not include the residence requirement, although the preempting claimant still needed to improve the land, primarily by providing a water source. In California, tens of thousands of acres of land were claimed via false preemptors – "dummy entrymen" – on behalf of several large land speculating companies.
The Preemption Act of 1841 was pivotal, but was neither the beginning nor the end of the issue of preemption. The Land Act of 1804, the Homestead Act, the aforementioned Desert Land Act, and other similar land acts addressed the issue of preemption.
Usage examples of "preemption".
The president noted that the traditional notion of preemption held that a nation would be justified in striking first if an adversary began to make discernible war preparations and began to move its ships, ready its planes, or mobilize its troops.
Bush administration, Iraq was an inviting target for preemption not because it was an immediate threat but because it was thought to be a prospective menace that was incapable of successfully defending itself against a U.
In making his argument for preemption in his June 2002 West Point speech and later in his official strategy document, Bush argued that deterrence--the threat of devastating retaliation that had kept the peace throughout the standoff with the Soviets during the Cold War--no longer could guarantee the peace.
In essence, the document implied that not only was preemption unnecessary in the case of Iraq but could backfire and bring about the very disaster it was intended to avert: the provision of WMD by Saddam to terrorists who sought to destroy America.
Rice was close to the president and had helped to frame his preemption doctrine.
Having publicly promulgated a doctrine of preemption, the Bush team was not about to be restrained by lack of support at the United Nations.
According to Captain Elijah Carey, who was in the thick of it, Santini advised Mister Watson that the State of Florida would not give preemption papers to any citizen who had not paid his debts to society, said Watson better look out for his own business.
The courts have frequently debated whether laws of unfair competition are similar enough to copyright jurisdiction in its aims to be preempted by Federal copyright law, to which defendant argues that preemption is not absolute in the area of intellectual property.
Twice have the crow-blackbirds attempted a settlement in my pines, and twice have the robins, who claim a right of preemption, so successfully played the part of border-ruffians as to drive them away,--to my great regret, for they are the best substitute we have for rooks.
And the notion of justified preemption runs counter to modern international law, which sanctions the use of force in self-defense only against actual, not potential, threats.
Its silence said that the pheromones were not those of preemption or command.
He had readily acknowledged Aruthas preemption of his command, for given its location, the garrison of Sethanon lacked any real battlefield commanders.
The President, in unfurling his June 2002 doctrine of preemption at West Point, was disingenuous in suggesting that proof of an emerging threat would be needed to trigger action.
Those co-PIs were ticked off and several time zones distant, fuming at the unexplained preemption by Rosaviacosmos of their long-scheduled viewings.
The game of first memories had been skirmishing, a confinement of the answer by the phrasing of the question, small preemptions of spirit.