Hyphenation of preemption

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word preemption? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pre-emp-tion

Definitions of preemption:

1.	The judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
2.	The right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
3.	The right to purchase something in advance of others
4.	A prior appropriation of something The preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests

Synonyms of preemption:

noun	pre-emption, legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine
noun	pre-emption, legal right
noun	pre-emption, right
noun	pre-emption, appropriation

Last hyphenations of this language

misadventure Oenocarpus refinances adactylism Represented spring-set sway-back adamant bedbug adject ksi chromodiascope pantotheria Altaloma mookhtar redrugging behoving caffetannic multisyllability

Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.