highjacking

Meaning of highjacking

verb
  1. To forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
  2. To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
  3. To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.
  4. To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site (to hijack a browser).
  5. To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
noun
  1. The act of one who hijacks; the seizure of vehicles.
  2. The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.

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Hyphenation of highjacking

high-jack-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • highjacking is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

highjacking synonyms

Meaning hijacking:

hijacking

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