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commandeer

/kɒmənˈdɪə(ɹ)/

commandeer verb: to seize for military use.

Verb

commandeer (third-person singular simple present commandeers, present participle commandeering, simple past and past participle commandeered)

  1. (transitive) To seize for military use.
  2. (transitive) To force into military service.
  3. (transitive) To take arbitrarily or by force.
  4. (broadly, transitive) To take or use for some purpose (not necessarily arbitrarily or by force).
    • "We're stuck taking the bus to school tomorrow, aren't we?" "...Yeah. Moperville South doesn't give bus service out here, so Ellen's commandeering my car."2007 February 5, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Feb 5, 2007

commandeer meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

commandeer in Tamil

கைப்பற்று, கட்டாயச் சேவைக்கு ஆணையிடு

commandeer in Urdu

حکم دینا

commandeer in Malayalam

seize, appropriate, take
സെെനികാവശ്യത്തിനായി പിടിച്ചെടുക്കുക, ബലാൽക്കാരമായി കെെവശപ്പെടുത്തുക, അധികാരമായി പിടിച്ചെടുക്കുക, കെെയ്ക്കലാക്കുക, നിയമപരമായ ഉടമയിലാക്കുക, കെെവശത്തിലെടുക്കുക

commandeer in Kannada

ವಶಕ್ಕೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳು, ವಶಪಡಿಸಿಕೊ, ಹಿಡಿ, ಆಕ್ರಮಿಸು, ವಶಕ್ಕೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊ

Examples of commandeer in a sentence

  • The county's Party committee, however, commandeered free labor from the production teams to build a new auditorium.
  • For a few years I commandeered the kitchen.
  • The question of commandeering social space and, by extension, reviving a public sphere could well be developed within the architectonic of Bakhtin's theory.

All 10 example sentences with commandeer

Forms of commandeer

third-person singular presentcommandeers
present participlecommandeering
past participlecommandeered
pastcommandeered

Past tense of commandeer: commandeered

Origin of commandeer

First attested in the late 19th century. From Dutch commanderen (“to command”), partially through its descendant, Afrikaans kommandeer (“to command”). Ultimately from French commander, from Old French comander, from Latin commendare. Doublet of command.

Words formed from commandeer

Words that rhyme with commandeer

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Questions about commandeer

What does commandeer mean?
Commandeer means to seize for military use.
What is commandeer in Tamil?
Commandeer in Tamil is கைப்பற்று, கட்டாயச் சேவைக்கு ஆணையிடு. See Commandeer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is commandeer?
Commandeer is a verb.
How do you pronounce commandeer?
Commandeer is pronounced /kɒmənˈdɪə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of commandeer?
The past tense of commandeer is commandeered.

Words near commandeer in the dictionary

  1. commandatory
  2. commanded
  3. commandedness
  4. commandedst
  5. commandee
  6. commandeer
  7. commandeered
  8. commandeerer
  9. commandeerers
  10. commandeering
  11. commandeerings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: commandeer (page history and authors); commandeer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commandeer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commandeer (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); commandeer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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