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- Dictionaryhijacking/ˈhīˌjakiNG/
noun
- 1. an act of unlawfully seizing an aircraft, vehicle, or ship while in transit; a hijack: "he was involved in a hijacking in 1981"
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the act of taking control of or using something that does not belong to you for your own advantage, or an occasion when this happens: The public won't stand for the hijacking of its public offices by corrupt politicians. I had recently fixed a browser hijacking issue. Fewer examples.
The meaning of HIJACK is to steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle. How to use hijack in a sentence.
5 days ago · Definitions of hijacking. noun. robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force. synonyms: highjacking. see more.
an occasion when someone uses force to take control of an aircraft or other vehicle: The hijack ended with the release of all the plane's passengers unharmed. He’s a leading suspect in the hijacking of the jetliner. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
To take control of (something) without permission or authorization and use it for one's own purposes: dissidents who hijacked the town council; spammers who hijacked a computer network. b. To steal or appropriate for oneself: hijacked her story and used it in his own book. n. The act or an instance of hijacking.
hijack. (haɪdʒæk ) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense hijacks , present participle hijacking , past tense, past participle hijacked. 1. verb. If someone hijacks a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another.
noun. the act or an instance of hijacking. attempted hijackings in the Soviet Union. car hijackings. Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Examples of 'hijacking' in a sentence. hijacking.
Hijack definition: to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop. See examples of HIJACK used in a sentence.
hijack something to use violence or threats to take control of a vehicle, especially a plane, in order to force it to travel to a different place or to demand something from a government. The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome.
noun. /ˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ/. /ˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ/. (also hijack) [countable, uncountable] the use of violence or threats to take control of a vehicle, especially a plane, in order to force it to travel to a different place or to demand something from a government.
