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Definition of Commandeering
1. commandeer [v] - See also: commandeer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commandeering
Literary usage of Commandeering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Government War Contracts by John Franklin Crowell (1920)
"CHAPTER VI commandeering as a Means of Supply Control In the contracting world
there was a sort of a stigma attached to the fact of having one's industry or ..."
2. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division for Economics and History (1920)
"CHAPTER VI commandeering as a Means of Supply Control In the contracting world
... the commandeering procedure as a general thing, it should be kept in mind ..."
3. Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board by United States Shipping Board (1918)
"The purposes of this commandeering order were to secure to the United States a
... At the time of the commandeering order practically all of the available ..."
4. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... in uniforms—Interned civilians—commandeering the rubbish stock—(Which boys
can ride bicycles—American shells—Germany's big men and how she regards them. ..."
5. Government Organization in War Time and After: A Survey of the Federal Civil by William Franklin Willoughby (1919)
"... the Emergency Fleet Corporation — Further war powers derived from Congress —
For seizure of enemy shipping — For commandeering of ships and shipbuilding ..."
6. The Transvaal War, 1880-81 by Lady Bellairs, Blanche St. John Moschzisker Bellairs (1885)
"Evasions to commandeering. The number of horses expended in action during the
investment was 215, ..."
7. Arbitration Or War ?: A View of the Transvaal Question, with a Glance Also by Francis Parker (1899)
"THE " commandeering INCIDENT." In 1894, the Rand capitalists for the first ...
Such is the simple history of the much discussed "commandeering incident. ..."
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