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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.
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.
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.
Hijack definition: to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop. See examples of HIJACK used in a sentence.
To hijack a vehicle is to take it over illegally. Such a crime is called a hijack or a hijacking. 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.
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) Translations of hijack. in Chinese (Traditional) 劫持（飛機或車輛）, 把持，控制，使用（本不屬於自己的東西）…
piracy. theft. kidnapping. (Show more) hijacking, the illegal seizure of a land vehicle, aircraft, or other conveyance while it is in transit.
