Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - hijack
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Hijack
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(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 • Hijack is also a noun. Every minute during the hijack seemed like a week. N-COUNT • hijacking (hijackings) Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day. N-COUNT 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 c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
also highjack transitive verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1923 1. a. to steal by stopping a vehicle on the highway b. to commandeer (a flying airplane) especially by coercing the pilot at gunpoint c. to stop and steal from (a vehicle in transit) d. kidnap 2. a. to steal or rob as if by ~ing b. to subject to extortion or swindling • ~ noun • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. 1 seize control of (a loaded lorry, an aircraft in flight, etc.), esp. to force it to a different destination. 2 seize (goods) in transit. 3 take over (an organization etc.) by force or subterfuge in order to redirect it. --n. an instance of hijacking. Derivatives hijacker n. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. угон самолета 2. угонять, похищать (какое-л. транспортное средство), заставляя водителя или летчика изменить маршрут; заниматься воздушным пиратством to hijack an airliner —- угнать пассажирский самолет 3. остановить на дороге и ограбить (автомобиль и т. п.); похитить (груз) to hijack goods from a truck —- похитить товары из грузовика ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) нападать с целью грабежа (на автомобили и т.п.); силой отнимать 2) угонять самолет, заниматься воздушным пиратством ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 to use violence or threats to take control of a plane, vehicle, or ship 2 to take control of something and use it for your own purposes (Some people think the party has been hijacked by right-wing extremists.) - hijacker n ~2 n BrE an act of hijacking a plane, vehicle etc ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1923, Amer.Eng., from high(way) + jacker "one who holds up." Originally "to rob (a bootlegger, smuggler, etc.) in transit;" sense of "seizing an aircraft in flight" is 1960s (also in 1961 variant skyjack), extended 1970s to any form of public transportation. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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