A feature of the HUD Code which states that it may not be modified in any way by local or state building codes The HUD Code preempts all other building codes with regard to manufactured housing
When a regularly scheduled program is replaced by special programming, the regular program is said to have been preempted
the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
An abrupt removal of a previously scheduled infomercial (or any) broadcast It happens most often for a breaking news story
In general, the doctrine that certain matters, either implicitly or by explicit expression of Congress, are of such a national, as opposed to local, character, that Federal laws supercede or take precedence over State laws ERISA has a very broad explicit preemption of any State law that "relates to" an employee benefit plan, whether or not the State law conflicts with ERISA (ERISA §514(a), 29 USC 1144(a))
The seizure, usually automatic, of military system facilities that are being used to serve a lower precedence call in order to serve immediately a higher precedence call (188)
The act of interrupting a currently running program in order to give time to another task
The act of suspending the execution of one thread and starting (or resuming) another The suspended thread is said to have been "preempted" by the new thread In QNX, whenever a lower-priority thread is actively consuming the CPU, and a higher-priority thread becomes READY, the lower-priority thread is immediately preempted by the higher-priority thread
If a process becomes ready to execute and it has a higher priority than the currently executing process, the “new” process preempts the current process That is, the operating system saves the current process's context and switches to the context of the higher-priority process See also process state transition
U.S. policy that allowed the first settlers, or squatters, on public land to buy the land they had improved. Since improved land, coveted by speculators, was often priced too high for squatters to buy at auction, temporary preemptive laws allowed them to acquire it without bidding. The Pre-Emption Act (1841) gave squatters the right to buy 160 acres at $1.25 per acre before the land was auctioned. The Homestead Act (1862) made preemption an accepted part of U.S. land policy. See also Homestead Movement
the right to purchase something in advance of others the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
A legal concept whereby certain federal laws are deemed to supersede state laws concerning the same subject matter
preemption
Silbentrennung
pre·emp·tion
Türkische aussprache
priempşın
Aussprache
/ˌprēˈempsʜən/ /ˌpriːˈɛmpʃən/
Etymologie
() From Medieval Latin praeēmptiō (“previous purchase”), from praeemō (“buy before”), from Latin prae- (“before”) + emō (“buy”).