sequester
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
sequester (sequesters, present participle sequestering; past and past participle sequestered)
- 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
- To separate in order to store.
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
- 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.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- (legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- 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.
- c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV
- (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.
- (international legal) To seize and hold enemy property.
- (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
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- French: séquestrer, mettre sous séquestre
- German: absondern
- Russian: изолировать
- Spanish: separar
- German: abscheiden
- Russian: секвестировать
- French: séquestrer
sequester (plural sequesters)
- sequestration; separation
- (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.
- (medicine) A sequestrum.
- German: Abscheidung, Abtrennung, Absonderung
- German: Zwangsverwalter, Sequester
- German: Sequester
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