Usually means: Taken control of by authority.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. commandeered: Merriam-Webster
  2. commandeered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. commandeered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Commandeered, commandeered: Wordnik
  5. commandeered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. commandeered: Wiktionary
  7. Commandeered, commandeered: Dictionary.com
  8. commandeered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. commandeered: FreeDictionary.org
  10. commandeered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See commandeer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (commandeer)

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).
▸ Also see commandeer


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