sequester
IPA: sɪkwˈɛstɝ
noun
- sequestration; separation
- (law) 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.
verb
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- To separate in order to store.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- (law) 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.
- (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
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Examples of "sequester" in Sentences
- Why are they sequestered
- The police sequestered prisoners.
- What is the purpose of being sequestered
- The man is sequestered from his coworkers.
- A doctor sequestered patients into different cells.
- He later became bankrupt and the estate was sequestered.
- He is supposedly sequestered from the rest of the houseguests.
- Sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide by increasing ocean alkalinity.
- In order to sequester the Cdc20, Mad2 must be recruited to the kinetochores.
- Rather than place it in the article, sequester it on the side in the infobox.