Preemptor vs Preempt - What's the difference?
preemptor | preempt | Derived terms |
One who .
* 1873 , D. C. Cloud, Monopolies and the People , p179
* 1931 , Theodore Christian Blegen et alios, Minnesota History , p85
* 1975 , C. C. Andrews, Minnesota and Dacotah , p214
to appropriate something (before someone else does)
to displace something, or take precedence over something
(bridge) to make a preemptive bid at bridge
Preemptor is a derived term of preempt.
As a noun preemptor
is one who preempts; especially, one who appropriates public land.As a verb preempt is
to appropriate something (before someone else does).preemptor
English
Alternative forms
* pre-emptor * preemptorNoun
(en noun)- If the preëmptor filed his claim one day or one week before he commenced his occupation, his claim, as against the railroad company, is fraudulent.
- In spite of this, whenever there was no convenient machinery for determining who was the rightful preëmptor the land title remained unsettled.
- The municipal preëmptor', like the agricultural '''preëmptor''', is required to take his land in conformity with “the legal subdivisions of the public lands”. I apprehend the import of the requirement is the same in both cases. Neither class of '''preëmptor'''s is to break the legal subdivisions as surveyed. The ' preëmptor of either case may take fractional sections if he will, but he is in every case to run his extreme lines with the lines of the surveyed subdivisions.
