0 the crime of using force or threats to take control of an aircraft, ship, car, etc., or an occasion when this happens:
Negotiators learn to role-play and stage mock hijackings using real passengers.
Given the size of the ship and prevailing weather, hijacking is the most likely explanation.
It's the beginning of a backlash against the hijacking of Christmas.
Cultural hijacking is most prevalent, it seems, on our own doorstep.
Subsequent transactions include alliances with central state bureaucrats, for an administrative ' green light ', and the hijacking of management committees.
The convention was another incidence of hijacking the institutional process by the military in an attempt to re-establish the pre-1993 situation.
The elite most involved in this ' hijacking ' consists of senior civil servants and politicians.
Any negotiation with those ruthless enough to use hijacking as an act of political pressure, can be conducted only from a position of weakness.
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