Sequester

/sɪˈkwɛs.tə/ · verb

Meaning

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw..

Definitions by Sense

1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
2. To separate in order to store.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
4. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
5. (law) 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.
7. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
8. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.

Example Sentences

The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.

when men most sequester themselves from action

The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.

There has been some investigation into the potential of seaweeds as a carbon store, and although more is needed, one study says that seaweed habitats are believed to be the most productive of all coastal vegetated ecosystems, and suggested that the world’s seaweed sequesters as much carbon as all the planet’s seagrass meadows, saltmarshes and mangroves combined.

I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.

c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.

to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics

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Word Forms

• sequesters
• sequestering
• sequestered

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