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Commandeer   /kˌɑməndˈɪr/   Listen
verb
Commandeer  v. t.  (past & past part. commandeered; pres. part. commandeering)  
1.
(Mil.) To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; orig. used of the Boers.
2.
To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. (Colloq.)





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"Commandeer" Quotes from Famous Books



... your orders. Commandeer the necessary canoes and notify Ludwig to have the men in readiness for the full moon. Work out the details and ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... again, and wondered what they were all doing there, and whether the Boers had interfered with my father because he was an Englishman. This brought up the thought that if the war went against the Boers they might go so far as to commandeer both my father and ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn
... had stopped, to go to the occupants and say, "I know the Lord has sent you for the purpose of giving me a lift." It was quite a natural consequence of this for me to be taken in. One day at Estaires I tried to commandeer a fine car standing in the square, but desisted when I was informed by the driver that it was the private property of the (p. 047) Prince of Wales. I am sure that if the Prince had been there to hear the text, he would have driven me anywhere ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
... van Warmelo and Hansie lived in some trepidation for the next few days, no second attempt was made to commandeer Harmony. ...
— The Petticoat Commando - Boer Women in Secret Service • Johanna Brandt
... recently developed itching pens. They use all manner of utensils for expression now. There's the magic typewriter that spooks for John Kendrick Bangs, the boardwalk that Patience Worth executes for Mrs. Curran, and innumerable other specters that commandeer fountain pens and pencils and brushes to give their versions of infinity. There's a passion on the part of ghosts for being interviewed just now. At present book-reviewers, for instance, had better be careful, lest the wraiths take their own method of answering criticism. ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various


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