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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: Created by Jim Field Smith, George Kay. With Idris Elba, Neil Maskell, Max Beesley, Ben Miles. A plane from Dubai to London is hijacked over a 7-hour flight, while authorities on the ground scramble for answers.
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.
verb [ T ] uk / ˈhaɪ.dʒæk / us / ˈhaɪ.dʒæk / to take control of an aircraft or other vehicle during a journey, especially using violence: Two men hijacked a jet travelling to Paris and demanded $125,000. disapproving. to take control of or use something that does not belong to you for your own advantage:
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 take control of an aircraft or other vehicle during a trip, especially using violence: Two men hijacked a jet traveling to Paris and demanded $125,000. disapproving. to take control of or use something that does not belong to you for your own advantage: He resents the way his ideas have been hijacked by others in the department.
If you say that someone has hijacked something, you disapprove of the way in which they have taken control of it when they had no right to do so.
