Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who preëmpts; especially, one who takes up land with the privilege of preëmption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who preëmpts; esp., one who preëmpts public land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
preempts ; especially, one whoappropriates public land.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid
- noun someone who acquires land by preemption
- noun someone who acquires land by preemption
- noun a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid
Etymologies
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Examples
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GRACE: No. KING: The question was, what is it like to be the preemptor of sending someone to the death penalty?
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KING: Is the jail that he's in now any kind of a preemptor for it?
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He knew the man, a preemptor of Folly Bay, a truckler to the cannery because he was always in debt to the cannery, -- and a quarrelsome individual besides, who took advantage of his size and strength to browbeat less able men.
Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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I say second choice, because the preemptor has had the first choice long ago, and it may be before the land was surveyed.
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The preemptor 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.
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The municipal preemptor, like the agricultural preemptor, is required to take his land in conformity with "the legal subdivisions of the public lands."
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The preemptor has to pay about five dollars in the way of fees before he gets through the entire process of securing a title.
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Now, the rights of an agricultural preemptor we understand.
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There is no pretension that such is the condition of the ordinary preemptor, and that he is thus held to inhabit, to cultivate, to dwell on, every quarter quarter-section, under penalty of having it seized by another preemptor, or entered in course by any public or private purchaser.
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The preemptor must make a settlement on the land in person; inhabit and improve the same, and erect thereon a dwelling.
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