Pre‐oc″cu‐pan‐cy (?), n. [See Preoccupate.] The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.