Hypertext Webster Gateway: "preoccupancy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Preoccupancy \Pre*oc"cu*pan*cy\, n. [See {Preoccupate}.]
The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the
preoccupancy of wild land.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
preoccupancy
n 1: the mental state of being preoccupied by something [syn: {preoccupation},
{absorption}, {engrossment}]
2: the act of taking occupancy before someone else does
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