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Definition of Highjacked
1. highjack [v] - See also: highjack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highjacked
Literary usage of Highjacked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"Even after pledges to allow aid convoys through, the Serbs bombed roads traveled
by the relief convoys and highjacked UN trucks to prevent the delivery of ..."
2. The Americans at Home: Or, Byeways, Backwoods, and Prairies by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1854)
"There was another chair besides the great rocking-chair—a highjacked chair of
the olden time; and this second chair was drawn up quite near the first, ..."
3. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"Yes, retaliated. In Paris, Berlin, or Moscow, it was the same thing. Someone once
asked an airline official in Russia why no one highjacked their ..."
4. Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security by Robert B. Oakley, Michael J. Dziedzic, Eliot M. Goldberg (1998)
"... and paramilitary organizations.1 *For example, scores of CIVPOL vehicles were
highjacked, typically at roadblocks, by such heavily armed forces. ..."
5. Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions by Aaron Betsky, Ghent Urban Studies Team (2002)
"... like Times Square are encouraged by the denationalization and deregulation of
such spaces, which are "highjacked" by economically liberal projects. ..."
6. Shifting Understandings Of Skills In South Africa: Overcoming The Historical by Simon A. McGrath, Human Sciences Research Council (2004)
"... the new economic realities and cry that the enlightenment has been highjacked
by certain governments working in tandem with the global corporations. ..."
7. Paradise Regained: Prospects for a New Social Order in the Third Millennium by Walter Prytulak (2000)
"If you find the needed food the discussion continues while eating, if not it is
highjacked by preoccupation with food. It is my contention that although we ..."
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