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発音

• IPA^(key): /pɹiːˈɛmp.ʃən/

名詞

preëmption (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 preëmptions)

1. Rare spelling of preemption.
   • 1906, Guy Carleton Lee & Francis Newton Thorpe, The History of North America, p255

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

   • 2004, John Wesley Powell, The Arid Lands, p37

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

   • 2005, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, p94

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

   • 2022, Elizabeth Kolbert, A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself, pg14

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

関連する語

• preëmpt
• preëmptible
• preëmptioner
• preëmptive
• preëmptively
• preëmptor
• preëmptory

参照

• • preëmption in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913, see page 1128.

アナグラム

• peremption