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How to pronounce “commandeer”
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Pronunciation guide for commandeer
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of commandeer with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 5 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it
then commandeer one of the world's 19 copies of that computer,
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To seize for military use.
Example 1 of 5
How to pronounce commandeer
How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it

then commandeer one of the world's 19 copies of that computer,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “commandeer”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To seize for military use.
- (transitive) To force into military service.
- (transitive) To take arbitrarily or by force.
- (transitive, by extension) To take or use for some purpose (not necessarily arbitrarily or by force).
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