highjacking

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 and divides as high-jac-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.