0 past simple and past participle of hijack
1 to take control of an aircraft or other vehicle during a journey, especially using violence:
Two men hijacked a jet travelling to Paris and demanded $125,000.
He resents the way his ideas have been hijacked by others in the department.
And a careful distinction between resilience and adaptability would, for instance, prevent the climate change debate being hijacked by the adaptationists.
With argument-dependent lookup, these other calls can be accidentally hijacked by functions with the same name in the client's namespace.
Historians, with their nuances, their explanatory sophistication, their relativism and judiciousness, are quite out of their depth when history is hijacked to politics.
His judgements, however, include such statements as 'the heights of inarticulacy', 'this blather', language studies 'hijacked by the descriptive linguists', and 'dreary gruel' (the output of those linguists).
Most people believe that they have been hijacked by political parties, especially when one examines the personalities involved in these organisations and their relationship with some political parties.
They should not allow themselves to be hijacked by underfunded and understaffed head teachers as part-time, unpaid, untrained extra teachers.
Six airliners have been hijacked, the last one in the middle east.
There is absolutely no doubt that, at some point in the early months of 1999, the national sports stadium project was hijacked by football.
