preemption

Other forms of preemption

plural

preemptions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about preemption

What does preemption mean?

preemption 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 preemption?

preemption has 3 syllables: pre-emp-tion. The stress falls on "emp". In IPA it is /ˌpɹiˈɛmpʃən/.

What is another word for preemption?

Close synonyms include pre-emption, pre-emption, pre-emption, pre-emption. 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 preemption a common word?

preemption 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.