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What does commandeering mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of commandeer
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A big-spending government might crowd out the private sector, commandeering resources that would be used better elsewhere.
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.
Somehow, the cast had managed to take over the bar, commandeering almost every chair in the place as they crowded around a group of tables squashed together.
She remembered when Syrup and she had been recruits in the army, learning the basics of war and commandeering a ship together.
Chandler and his control team were commandeering juggernauts to block off the dock piers one at a time.

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