preemptor

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See also: preëmptor

English

Etymology

Compare Latin praeemptor.

Noun

preemptor (plural preemptors)

  1. One who preempts; especially one who appropriates public land.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for preemptor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)