Usually means: Takes control or possession authoritatively.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. commandeers: Merriam-Webster
  2. commandeers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. commandeers: Vocabulary.com
  4. commandeers: Wordnik
  5. commandeers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. commandeers: Wiktionary
  7. commandeers: Dictionary.com
  8. commandeers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. commandeers: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. commandeers: 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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