preemption
pree emp shuhn
- n the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
- n the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
- n the right to purchase something in advance of others
- n a prior appropriation of something
the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests
- But that's precisely what the advocates of the administration's "preemption" doctrine, laid out in the President's graduation speech at West Point in June are advocating.
- Still, a nuclear-armed North Korea would appear to be intolerable to Bush doctrine of preemption and "counter-proliferation.
- It now includes two additional elements: preemption, which calls for confronting the worst threats before they emerge; and Bush's "freedom agenda," which argues for nurturing .