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hijack
has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law
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[ verb ] take arbitrarily or by force
Synonyms Examples "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami" Used in print ("National Affairs"...)To Rickards , a 52 - year-old veteran 30 years in_the_air , it was an old story : His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much_as it had happened in 1930 , when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa . But last week 's pirates , like the Cuban-American who recently hijacked an Eastern Airlines Electra ( Newsweek , Aug. 7 ) , wanted to go to Havana . Related terms seize seize carjack skyjack crime highjacker highjacker highjacking |
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
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