pre-emption

英 [pri'empʃn] 美 [pri'empʃn]

• n. 收买权

英英释义

Noun:

1. the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

2. the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

3. the right to purchase something in advance of others

4. a prior appropriation of something;

   "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"
   

经典引文

• The papal government..has the right of pre-emption whenever any relics of ancient art are discovered.

  出自： N. Hawthorne

近反义词

【近义词】

• preemption 先买（权）