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preemption
Synonyms and Antonyms of preemption
- longtime residents resented the preemption of their urban neighborhood by this influx of affluent yuppies
annexation, assumption, attachment, confiscation, grab, impoundment, repossession, sequestration
defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, theft
despoilment, looting, pillaging
encroachment, infringement, piracy
invasion, occupancy, occupation, preoccupancy, trespass
deforcement, disfurnishment, dispossession, ejection, stripping
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