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preemptionnoun the unlawful taking or withholding of something from the rightful owner under a guise of authoritylongtime residents resented the preemption of their urban neighborhood by this influx of affluent yuppies appropriation, arrogation, commandeering, detainer, expropriation, seizure, takeover, usurpation annexation, assumption, attachment, confiscation, grab, impoundment, repossession, sequestrationdefalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, theftdespoilment, looting, pillagingencroachment, infringement, piracyinvasion, occupancy, occupation, preoccupancy, trespassdeforcement, disfurnishment, dispossession, ejection, stripping in 1602 |