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The meaning of HIJACK is to steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle. How to use hijack in a sentence.
verb. /ˈhaɪdʒæk/ Verb Forms. 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. Wordfinder. Collocations Crime.
hijack. noun [ C or U ] uk / ˈhaɪ.dʒæk / us / ˈhaɪ.dʒæk / (also hijacking) 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.
verb (used with object) to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey. to rob (a vehicle) after forcing it to stop: They hijacked the truck before it entered the city. to seize (a vehicle) by force or threat of force. to skyjack.
Hijack can be used more generally to mean “take over.”. If your friend has a bad habit of interrupting other people to talk about himself, you can say that he tends to hijack the conversation. Definitions of hijack. verb. take arbitrarily or by force. synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate. see more.
verb. /ˈhaɪdʒæk/ Verb Forms. 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 Miami to San Juan. Topic Collocations.
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verb [ T ] uk / ˈhaɪdʒæk / us. Add to word list Add to word list. to take control of an aircraft during a journey, especially using violence: [ often passive ] The plane was hijacked by terrorists. hijacker. noun [ C ] hijacking. noun [ C, U ] (Definition of hijack from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
