sequester
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /sɪˈkwɛs.tə/, /səˈkwɛs.tə/
  • (GA) IPA: /sɪˈkwɛs.tɚ/, /səˈkwɛs.tɚ/
Verb

sequester (sequesters, present participle sequestering; past and past participle sequestered)

  1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
    The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
    • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
      when men most sequester themselves from action
  2. To separate in order to store.
    The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
  3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
    • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
      I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.
  4. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
  5. (legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
  6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
    • c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV
      It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
  7. (transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
    The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
  8. (international legal) To seize and hold enemy property.
  9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
    • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Vnlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], OCLC 879551664 ↗:
      to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
  10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Synonyms Translations Translations
  • German: abscheiden
  • Russian: секвестировать
Translations Noun

sequester (plural sequesters)

  1. sequestration; separation
  2. (legal) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
  3. (medicine) A sequestrum.
Translations Translations
  • German: Zwangsverwalter, Sequester
Translations
  • German: Sequester



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