highjacking

1. 1.

   robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force

   Synonymshijacking

   Broaderrobbery

   Narrowerpiracy

Other forms of highjacking

plural

highjackings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about highjacking

What does highjacking mean?

highjacking means "robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force".

How many syllables are in highjacking?

highjacking has 3 syllables: high-jac-king. The stress falls on "high".

What is another word for highjacking?

Close synonyms include hijacking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is highjacking a common word?

highjacking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.