Preemption

Definitions

1. A township and census-designated place therein, in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.
2. Rare spelling of preemption.
   alt-of, countable, rare, uncountable
3. An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:
   countable, uncountable
4. The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
   countable, uncountable
5. The purchase of public land by the occupant.
   countable, uncountable
6. The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
   countable, uncountable
7. The supersession of a conflicting law from a lower jurisdiction by an overlapping law from a higher jurisdiction.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“All the foreigners who had served therein were entitled to homesteads, many lands were open⟳ to preëmption by foreigners…”

“No person can exercise the preëmption right who is already the owner of 320 acres of land⟳.”

““If you had two hundred dollars to pay⟳ on your preëmption you could borrow some.””

“The hope⟳ was to preëmpt the preëmption of laws like⟳ Orange County’s.”

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