right a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east; "take a right at the corner"
preemptive right the right granting to shareholders the first opportunity to buy a new issue of stock; provides protection against dilution of the shareholder's ownership interest
pre-emption -
a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"
appropriation a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest"
pre-emption -
the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject