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| Domain | Definition |
Law | The kind of crime carried out against a person sitting in his or her car. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the United States, a law was passed in 1992 making carjacking a federal crime, amid a large amount of media attention on an apparent rash of carjacking thefts. This was criticized by Libertarians and states' rights activists who noted that the control of crime is a matter for the states and not the federal government, and opined that carjacking was only made a federal crime in order to make some incumbents appear tough on crime and gain some votes.
The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that in about half of all carjacking attempts, the attacker succeeds in stealing the victim's car. It estimated that between 1987 and 1992, about 35,000 carjacking attempts took place per year, and between 1992 and 1996, about 49,000 attempts took place per year.
Carjacking is also a notable problem in South Africa, and there are warning signs telling people that certain areas are hot-spots. There were 16,000 carjackings in one year (18 times the American rate, per capita), and these result in about 60 murders a year.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carjacking."
Crosswords: CARJACKING |
| Non-English Usage: "CARJACKING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (carjacking). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | San Diego has a big carjacking problem (Flirting with Disaster; writing credit: David O. Russell) This isn't the castle. This is the real, in-your-face, carjacking, drive-by-shooting, kill-you-for-your-Reeboks street life (A Kid in King Arthur's Court; writing credit: Michael Part; Robert L. Levy) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Presently, anybody driving a car or walking the streets could be a random carjacking (“secuestro al paso”) victim. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zambia | In 1999 four gunmen shot and killed Wezi Kaunda, the son of former President Kenneth Kaunda, during an apparent carjacking in Lusaka. (references) |
United Kingdom | Targets included group members who have broken ranks or individuals accused of "antisocial" activities such as drug trafficking or carjacking. (references) | |
Guatemala | The crime was characterized by the PNC and the Minister of Interior as an attempted carjacking, but various human rights groups did not rule out the possibility of a political motive. (references) | |
Travel | Georgia | There have recently been an increasing number of violent incidents in the province and in the border area, including: bombings, assassinations, mining of roads, and carjacking. (references) |
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| "CARJACKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "CARJACKING" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carjacking | 16 |
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| Language | Translations for "CARJACKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | carjacking, autoraub. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arjackingcay.(various references) | |
Russian | ограбление автомашин. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CARJACKING": carjackings. (additional references) | |
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"CARJACKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carjackings, carmaking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CARJACKING" (pronounced kÄ"rja'king) |
| 5 | -j a' k i ng | hijacking. |
| 4 | -a' k i ng | backtracking, kayaking, meatpacking, piggybacking, quarterbacking, ransacking, wisecracking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, racking, raking, ranking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-g-i-j-k-n-r" | |
-2 letters: cracking. | |
-3 letters: arcking, carking, jacking, racking. | |
-4 letters: acinar, agaric, arcing, arnica, caking, carack, carina, caring, crania, jarina, racing, raking. | |
-5 letters: acari, acing, again, agria, cairn, cigar, circa, crack, crank, crick, ganja, garni, grain, grana, jagra, kanji, kiang, naira, naric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-g-i-j-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: carjackings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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