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What does commandeering mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of commandeer
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Chandler and his control team were commandeering juggernauts to block off the dock piers one at a time.
Initially the police and the owner of the site had no problem with the commandeering of the crane.
For one thing, congress has only rarely relied on commandeering state officials to achieve its ends.
Now, at press time this group remained unsanctioned by the student union, so your seeing them at Clubs Days is dependent on their commandeering another club's table.
Truck bombs, commandeering of commercial aircraft, and credit card fraud appear to have been the primary tools used by those who have done us great harm.
But commandeering my computer for an entire week in order to hector me into giving them more personal information is unconscionable.

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