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To commandeer something is to take it for your own use even though it belongs to someone else. The older, strict meaning is military: in a war, an army may commandeer cars, houses, or food and say they need them. People now also use it more loosely, even as a joke — if you “commandeer” a friend’s chair, you take it without a real yes. It still feels : this is not polite borrowing. It is not the same as command, which means to give an order.
徵用（戰時強行徵用民物；口語開玩笑說「佔走」時也會用）
組成First used in English in the late 1800s. From Dutch commanderen (“to command”), partly through Afrikaans kommandeer. The trail goes back to French commander and Latin commendare. It is a doublet of command: same older source, different path into English.
同家族的字
- commandattested doublet: same older source, different route into English
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
commandeerverb/kɒmənˈdɪə(ɹ)/
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To seize for military use.
- 2
To force into military service.
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To take arbitrarily or by force.
- 4
To take or use for some purpose (not necessarily arbitrarily or by force).
- "We're stuck taking the bus to school tomorrow, aren't we?" "...Yeah. Moperville South doesn't give bus service out here, so Ellen's commandeering my car."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。