Definition of "commandeering" [commandeering]

• Present participle of commandeer. (verb)

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• "Also: assuming my argument about commandeering is correct, it wouldn’t stop several successive congresses from gradually raising the requirements on states regarding Medicaid coverage, just like current jurisprudence doesn’t prevent Congress from doing away with “limited times” for copyright terms by retroactively extending copyright terms a little at a time forever."
• ""We will need to take shelter there, " Secca didn't like the idea of commandeering a town, but better that in an area whose lord had rebelled than having lancers die from the cold."
• ""That's called commandeering the legislature," he says."