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commandeer

[kom-uhn-deer]

verb (used with object)

  1. to order or force into active military service.

  2. to seize (private property) for military or other public use.

    The police officer commandeered a taxi and took off after the getaway car.

  3. to seize arbitrarily.



commandeer

/ ˌɒəˈɪə /

verb

  1. to seize for public or military use

  2. to seize arbitrarily

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of commandeer1

1880–85; < Afrikaans kommandeer < French commander to command
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of commandeer1

C19: from Afrikaans kommandeer, from French commander to command
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Ellie charges through sheets of rain and commandeers a boat into the choppy waters of Elliott Bay, washing up on a local island's shore to be captured and nearly killed by Seraphites.

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The students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to take them to an annual protest in Mexico City.

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A group of prisoners, gaunt and starving, are commandeered to serve as unusually cooperative movie extras.

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At stake is our outrage that the beauty in this world has been commandeered by people who act like they own the planet.

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Because the city has failed, he said, the receiver would have authority “vested by the court to commandeer what it needs within the city in order to solve this problem.”

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