preëmption

plural preëmptions

1. countablerareuncountableRare spelling of preemption.

   The hope was to preëmpt the preëmption of laws like Orange County’s.

   2022, Elizabeth Kolbert, A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself, page 14

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   All the foreigners who had served therein were entitled to homesteads, many lands were open to preëmption by foreigners…

   1906, Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe, The History of North America, page 255

   No person can exercise the preëmption right who is already the owner of 320 acres of land.

   2004, John Wesley Powell, The Arid Lands, page 37

   “If you had two hundred dollars to pay on your preëmption you could borrow some.”

   2005, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, page 94