transcription, транскрипция: [ haɪdʒæk ]
( hijacks, hijacking, hijacked)
1.
If someone hijacks a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another.
Two men tried to hijack a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk...
The hijacked plane exploded in a ball of fire.
VERB : V n , V-ed
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Hijack is also a noun.
Every minute during the hijack seemed like a week.
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• hi‧jack‧ing
(hijackings)
Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day.
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2.
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.
A peaceful demonstration had been hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble.
VERB : V n [ disapproval ]