Usually means: Take control of property forcibly.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. commandeer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commandeer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commandeer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commandeer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commandeer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commandeer, commandeer: Wordnik
  7. commandeer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commandeer: Wiktionary
  9. commandeer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commandeer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commandeer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Commandeer, commandeer: Dictionary.com
  13. commandeer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. commandeer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Commandeer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. commandeer: Rhymezone
  17. commandeer: Free Dictionary
  18. commandeer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. commandeer: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commandeer: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commandeer: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commandeer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See commandeered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To seize for military use.
verb:  (transitive) To force into military service.
verb:  (transitive) To take arbitrarily or by force.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To take or use for some purpose (not necessarily arbitrarily or by force).

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