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单词 pre-emptioner
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pre-emptionern.

Brit. /priːˈɛm(p)ʃ(ə)nə/, /prɪˈɛm(p)ʃ(ə)nə/, U.S. /priˈɛm(p)ʃənər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre-emption n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < pre-emption n. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier pre-emptor n.
North American.
(a) A person who acquires public land by pre-emption, a pre-emptor. Now historical. (b) A person who has a preferential right to purchase something.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > acquirer of land by right of purchase
pre-emptor1754
pre-emptioner1800
1800 Jrnl. Assembly State N.Y. 209 Most of them wish to stand on the footing of pre-emptioners, having lost the land which they hald under the Indians.
1803 J. Hughes Rep. Supreme Court Kentucky 125 The usual entries made with the commissioners..merely contain a memorandum of the quantity of land claimed by the pre-emptioner.
1841 Knickerbocker 17 278 They amused themselves by calling the exclusives ‘squatters’, ‘prëemptioners’, etc.
1872 J. H. Tice Over Plains 80 As far as the eye can reach the plain is dotted with new shanties of the homesteaders and pre-emptioners.
1935 Yale Law Jrnl. 45 1391 If the preemptioner must pay the offeror's price..there is no material impediment to alienation.
1990 North Western Reporter 2nd Ser. 565 346 If the preemptioner decides not to buy, then the owner may sell to anyone.
2001 Law & Hist. Rev. 19 97 McIntosh obtained these lands from preemptioners and colonial claimants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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