The word "highjack" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when speaking or writing about the hijacking of an aircraft or vehicle. Example sentence: The police have indicated that the perpetrators intended to highjack the plane.
* * * Carruth seems to have been inspired by parasites that highjack their hosts' nervous systems, such as the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, which impels an infected rodent to take risks that are likely to get it eaten by a cat, in whose guts the protozoan likes to have sex and reproduce.
– Vindu Goel Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies in San Francisco Reuters | A well-known hacker and specialist in embedded devices died just before his presentation on how to highjack pacemakers.
"I came to the assistance of economically vulnerable individuals who were being harassed, threatened, intimidated, persecuted and incarcerated by arrogant, narcissi Federal Government officials who have organized together to highjack and steal our Constitutional form of government from the people of the United States of America (sic)," she wrote in the complaint filed Wednesday.
So far the big news has been about individuals who fear companies will highjack their images, but what about the other side of the coin, where the companies are the victims?
But the plan to highjack the actual UN negotiations, where every word is debated tediously, by bringing in heads of states to come up with a last minute half-deal, which could also be a face-saver for host Mexico, has not gone down well with India.
* * * Carruth seems to have been inspired by parasites that highjack their hosts' nervous systems, such as the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, which impels an infected rodent to take risks that are likely to get it eaten by a cat, in whose guts the protozoan likes to have sex and reproduce.
You don't have to be a frequent flier to be potentially affected by a highjacking.
Mr Wise's theory, in short, is that Russian agents highjacked the plane and flew it to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, while using technical trickery to make it appear as if the plane had flown south, into some of the deepest parts of the Indian Ocean.
Hijacking, also spelled highjacking, the illegal seizure of a land vehicle, aircraft, or other conveyance while it is in transit.
Trainee teachers in the Mexican state of Michoacán highjacked buses and trucks in protests against compulsory English language and computer science courses last month, sparking clashes with the police.
While this should mean poor people in developing countries have better energy supplies, the initiative looks set to be highjacked by big companies looking to export large scale energy technologies, including biofuels, to developing countries.
