PREEMPTION
- The purchase of goods or shares by one person or party before the opportunity is offered to others
- The right to purchase public land in this way
- The action of preempting or forestalling, esp. of making a preemptive attack
- The interruption or replacement of a scheduled radio or television program
- the act or right of purchasing before others [n -S]
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