pre-emption

Questions about pre-emption

What does pre-emption mean?

pre-emption means "the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pre-emption?

pre-emption has 3 syllables and divides as pre--emp-tion under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pre-emption?

Close synonyms include preemption, preemption, preemption, preemption. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pre-emption a common word?

pre-emption is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.