Anagrams of: PREEMPTIONS

• the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

• the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

• the right to purchase something in advance of others

• a prior appropriation of something

• a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding

• acquire for oneself before others can do so

• take the place of or have precedence over

• gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)

• make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge

• a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding

• acquire for oneself before others can do so

• take the place of or have precedence over

• gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)

• make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge

• (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule

• region around the mouth in various invertebrates

• a worker who uses a mop to clean a surface

• a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)

• (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command

• according to schedule or without delay; on time

• ready and willing or quick to act

• performed with little or no delay

• give an incentive for action

• serve as the inciting cause of

• assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned