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Commandeer meaning
To seize for military use. | To force into military service. | To take arbitrarily or by force.
Example sentences (15)
Allow the WHO to commandeer medical supplies in any country, transfer them to other countries, and evade laws on intellectual property.
If you stay in close touch with your shadowy side, it will never commandeer more than 10% of your total personality.
Norris Cotton finagles a bill giving New Hampshire’s senior Senator the right in perpetuity to commandeer Daniel Webster’s old desk.
The outlet continued, "Following a high-octane showdown with the local militia on Jolo's shores, Gaspare manages to commandeer a fishing boat and escape the Philippines.
During counter-terror operations, Russian authorities can commandeer vehicles, close towns and cities, introduce checkpoints, listen in on phone calls and announce no-go areas.
Many charter services offer the opportunity to commandeer a private plane or buy an unused seat on a private flight, but charter flights are still usually more expensive than commercial options.
They shot one victim, Lyubov Tymchak, because she told them they could not find an empty house to commandeer.
Controls are inevitably a little awkward until you get used to them, but this is a tense shooter that will suck you right in. There are loads of different weapons and pieces of gear littered around to scavenge, not to mention vehicles you can commandeer.
In the parallel reality of the film, thanks to the invention of a high-tech cranial implant, trained professionals can commandeer the minds of whomever they please.
The order requires hospitals, health care providers and manufacturers to provide current inventories and allows the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to commandeer supplies to be reallocated to areas with the most urgent need.
Personally, there was a glass seating area only slightly bigger than a closet looking out over the Hudson River that I would absolutely commandeer as my private refuge when I needed to make a call or get away from it all.
A car behind drives right into the rear bumper of the victim, police say, then when the driver in front gets out, police say two men emerge from the car behind–sometimes in ski masks–pull weapons and commandeer the car they hit.
To get their map approved by Wolf, Republicans will have to attempt to make it bipartisan – or else risk having the court commandeer the process.
The hijackers on those flights had waited no more than 30 minutes to commandeer the aircraft, most likely striking after the seat-belt sign had been turned off and cabin service had begun.
The state claimed certain proportions of all crops, stock, etc. The king's messengers could commandeer any subject's property, giving a receipt.