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Preoccupancy

Preoccupancy \Pre*oc"cu*pan*cy\, n. [See Preoccupate.] The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
preoccupancy

also pre-occupancy, "prior occupation," 1734, from pre- + occupancy.

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preoccupancy

n. The act or right of taking possession before another.

WordNet
preoccupancy
  1. n. the mental state of being preoccupied by something [syn: preoccupation, absorption, engrossment]

  2. the act of taking occupancy before someone else does [syn: preoccupation]