Definition of commandeer | Bee Dictionary of English

v take arbitrarily or by force
The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami

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June 11, 2013 - IGN Guides
Potential new target to thwart antibiotic resistance: Viruses in gut confer antibiotic resistance to bacteria
Bacteria in the gut that are under attack by antibiotics have allies no one had anticipated, scientists have found. Gut viruses that usually commandeer the bacteria, it turns out, enable them to survive the antibiotic onslaught, most likely by handing them genes that help them withstand the drug.
June 10, 2013 - Science Daily
Metal Gear Solid V Kicks Off Microsoft's E3 Event
Microsoft opened its E3 press conference with an extended trailer for Metal Gear Solid V, showing off many changes to the series’ traditional formula. Konami had previously announced the game’s open-world nature, but the video highlighted how that works. Snake (now with a ponytail) can commandeer transportation like horses, tanks, and jeeps to get around the world. Stealth is even still possible ...
June 10, 2013 - Game Informer

Henry Waxman in FOXNews
The president should be ashamed of using a national day of mourning to commandeer the airwaves to give a speech that was designed not to unite the country and commemorate the fallen but to seek support for a war in Iraq that he has admitted had... Edward Kennedy http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGrFlLlEu3gILV8ws9Od3-m-rPBRA International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/12/america/NA_GEN_US_Bush.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEVswVeY-LGopovtuKzH3bVuswWrQ Sep 11, 2006 19848 27649 commandeer It is mind-boggling that the secretary would commandeer for his own personal convenience a jet that is supposed to be used by CDC for public health emergencies," Waxman said.
Karen Carter in San Francisco Chronicle
Don't give me your money. Don't send me $10 million today. Give me buses and gas. Buses and gas. Buses and gas,said Democratic Louisiana state Rep. Karen Carter, whose district includes the French Quarter. "If you have to commandeer...