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Definition of Commandeered
1. commandeer [v] - See also: commandeer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commandeered
Literary usage of Commandeered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: Hearing Before the by United States, Senate, Congress, Committee on Commerce (1918)
"Mr. Donald, how many of these commandeered ships that you have taken over ...
I believe you said there were 39 that you have commandeered—or how many nil ..."
2. United States-Norway Arbitration Under the Special Agreement of June 30 by United States, William Cullen Dennis, Permanent Court of Arbitration (1922)
"... Builders, By JE SHEEDY, Assistant Manager. Authorized Representative of Owners.
District No. 8. WR SMART, Inspector. Report of ships commandeered. ..."
3. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1900)
"commandeered ' BY B. MAUDE ' CONFOUND those infernal Boers, they've commandeered
Kater- ..."
4. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair (1915)
"admirable presence of mind, commandeered one of these and went back with it to
the village, so that we could take our load of wounded into Ghent. ..."
5. Africa from South to North Through Marotseland by Alfred St. Hill Gibbons (1904)
"... A village on a hill — Food commandeered — Goods brought forward in relays —
Captain Hamilton in blissful solitude ..."
6. Briton, Boer and Black, Or Ten Years' Hunting, Trading and Prospecting in by Clement Handley (1906)
"... LAAGER DURING THE JAMESON RAID My cattle are commandeered—I am arrested—Insults
of the Boers—My life is threatened—I meet an old friend—A foul murder—I ..."
7. A War Zone Gadabout: Being the Authentic Account of Four Trips to the by Walter Austin (1917)
"... CHAPTER NINE Paris — Buying German War Trophies — Havre—The "Dread- naught"
commandeered — Comes Back Branded — Taken for a Whiskey Peddler — Held up at ..."
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