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Meaning of "highjacking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HIGHJACKING

highjacking  [ˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIGHJACKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Highjacking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HIGHJACKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hijacking

Hijacking, Highjack, or Hijacker may refer to: ▪ Aircraft hijacking ▪ Carjacking ▪ Maritime hijacking or piracy ▪ Truck hijacking Hijacking, Highjack, or Hijacker may also refer to...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HIGHJACKING


attacking
əˈtækɪŋ
backing
ˈbækɪŋ
backpacking
ˈbækpækɪŋ
barebacking
ˈbeəbækɪŋ
blogjacking
ˈblɒɡˌdʒækɪŋ
bluejacking
ˈbluːˌdʒækɪŋ
carjacking
ˈkɑːˌdʒækɪŋ
cracking
ˈkrækɪŋ
fast-tracking
ˈfɑːstˌtrækɪŋ
fracking
ˈfrækɪŋ
hacking
ˈhækɪŋ
hijacking
ˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ
meatpacking
ˈmiːtpækɪŋ
packing
ˈpækɪŋ
racking
ˈrækɪŋ
skyjacking
ˈskaɪˌdʒækɪŋ
smacking
ˈsmækɪŋ
stacking
ˈstækɪŋ
tracking
ˈtrækɪŋ
unpacking
ʌnˈpækɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIGHJACKING

higher self
Higher Still
higher-up
highermost
highest common factor
highfalutin
highfaluting
highish
highjack
highjacker
highland
Highland cattle
Highland Clearances
Highland dress
Highland fling
Highland Games
Highlander
Highlands
highlife
highlight

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIGHJACKING

banking
blocking
checking
clicking
docking
fucking
kicking
knocking
lacking
licking
locking
mocking
overclocking
picking
rocking
shocking
stocking
sucking
trafficking
trucking
wrecking

Synonyms and antonyms of highjacking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HIGHJACKING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «highjacking» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of highjacking

Translation of «highjacking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIGHJACKING

Find out the translation of highjacking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of highjacking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «highjacking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

劫持
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

highjacking
570 millions of speakers

English

highjacking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

highjacking
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

highjacking
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

highjacking
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sequestro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

highjacking
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

détournement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Highjacking
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entführung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

highjacking
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

highjacking
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Highjacking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

highjacking
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

highjacking
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उच्चजॅकिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

highjacking
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dirottamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

highjacking
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

highjacking
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

highjacking
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

highjacking
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

highjacking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

highjacking
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

highjacking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of highjacking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGHJACKING»

The term «highjacking» is normally little used and occupies the 131.274 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGHJACKING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «highjacking» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «highjacking» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about highjacking

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGHJACKING»

Discover the use of highjacking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to highjacking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic ...
CAS,JHC Preventing highjacking is a worldwide activity of many sorts, but for the sake of some insight into how it might apply to the retail community, the best example, based on our experience, deals with the movement by truck of high- price ...
Charles A. Sennewald, John H. Christman, 2011
2
Managing Knowledge Security: Strategies for Protecting Your ...
types 51-52 see also knowledge management internet, the 55-56 Iraq 130 Jobs, Steve 27 joint ventures 86-87 guile of business partners 91 highjacking/ incapacitation 97 leaks 23 movement of intellectual assets 95 sub-par performance 90 ...
Kevin C. Desouza, 2007
3
Brooklyn South: A Story of New York
Phil told his trusted friend, Sal, that he wanted him to direct a highjacking. Someone at the associate's level would not normally be visibly involved in such a risky operation. Phil explained to Sal, that the previous highjacking had been badly ...
Joseph F. Kelly, 2006
4
The Secret Diary of Ben Zoma: Hearsay Heresy/And the Empty ...
snake” and its aftermath)) there was effectuated by these people a wholesale appropriating (in effect, highjacking) for their invention (i.e., the Oral Torah) of a whole raft of procedures intrinsic to the reading and interpretation of Scripture, all of ...
John W. McGinley, 2008
5
Fundamentals of Network Security
There are many different kinds of spoofs, including, among many others, IP address spoofing, session highjacking, domain name service (DNS) spoofing, sequence number spoofing, and replay attacks. IP Address Spoofing Every device on a ...
John E. Canavan, 2001
6
SEO For 2011: Search Engine Optimization Secrets
Highjacking. Page hijacking occurs when very popular webpage coding is stolen and used to represent your website to the search engines. When users perform a search and see your webpage in the search results, they click through the link ...
Sean Odom, 2010
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SEO Made Simple For 2011
Highjacking. Page hijacking occurs when very popular webpage coding is stolen and used to represent your web site to the search engines. When users perform a search and see your webpage in the search results, they click through the link ...
Jason McCormick, 2010
8
Dictionary for Air Travel and Tourism Activities: Over 7,100 ...
Hijack or Highjacking (Airlines): The action of seizing by force any vehicle when it is occupied and traveling. The most common types of highjacking are carjacking, skyjacking, and maritime piracy. Carjacking is the illegal appropriation of a ...
Homero E. Martinez, 2008
9
Confessions of a Corporate Centurion: Tales of International ...
This was the very first highjacking of an aircraft. Regrettably, it was not to be the last. Thirty years passed. A left leaning Greek government came into power under Andreas Papandreau. Communists, who had been pariahs under the military ...
Gordon S. Riess, 1998
10
Cisco Networking Essentials
Rogue access points that are not connected to your wired infrastructure are usually used as a part of a highjacking attack, which is discussed next. Highjacking Attacks A highjacking attack is one in which the. A WIPS is a radio- equipped ...
Troy McMillan, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIGHJACKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term highjacking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Makers Of YPlan App Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name …
Makers Of YPlan App Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Highjacking on 14 Year Old Yplan.com. July 13, 2015 by Michael Berkens 3 Comments. YPlan ... «TheDomains.com, Jul 15»
2
South Bend man criticizes Mayor based on sexuality at Common …
"The real issues involve the homosexual highjacking of the civil rights movement, the destruction of representative government in the city of ... «Fox 28, Jul 15»
3
Letter: White supremacy
He ends his mangled history by saying, “The stars and bars of the Confederate flag has never meant white supremacy and highjacking it to ... «Pueblo Chieftain, Jul 15»
4
This Is What Happens When You Become a Meme
Whereas a "meme" is a self-replicating unit of cultural information, "An internet meme is a highjacking of the original idea... altered deliberately ... «VICE, Jul 15»
5
Letter: Federal power was the real issue
The stars and bars of the confederate flag has never meant white supremacy and highjacking it to make it so, doesn't make it so. Daniel Doran. «Pueblo Chieftain, Jul 15»
6
HC denies parole to Kandahar hijacker
Abdul Latif Adam Momin alias Abdul Rehman, sentenced to life in the IC-814 Indian Airlines highjacking case, on Thursday was denied parole ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
7
Justices have a lot to learn from Pope Francis
The latest example is "same-sex marriage" or more specifically the highjacking of the term marriage. I have no problem with like-minded men ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
8
BWW Reviews: New Abbey Play Offers Complex Legacies of The …
... republicanism, a critique that has its source in the highjacking of the left-leaning labour movement around the time of the 1916 Easter Rising. «Broadway World, Jun 15»
9
Atheist Demands The Right To Skip Airport Security Entirely
... in hour-plus lines since no atheist — so far as I could discover — has ever been accused of bombing or highjacking [sic] a plane,” he writes. «Daily Caller, Jun 15»
10
Is it Time for Fast Track Atheist Security Checks at Airports?
Since atheists aren't known for bombing or highjacking airplanes, should they wait in exhausting TSA airport security check lines? -- Photo by ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»

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