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pre-empt
n. a slang abbreviation forpre-emptive right. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xxiv....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
A right of purchasing necessary cargoes upon reasonable compensation to the individual whose property is thus diverted. This claim is usually restricted to neutrals avowedly bound to the enemy's ports, and is a mitigation of the former practice of seizing them. (See commeatus.)
n. a slang abbreviation forpre-emptive right. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xxiv....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris