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
- 8 Responses to “Catfight in sequester house” siradaono
- It should be interesting to see how April and Libra make out in sequester house.
- This action, called a "sequester," would also generate $169 billion in saving from lower interest costs on the national debt.
- The enforcement mechanism—known as a sequester''—would force cuts for all federal programs including defense spending, an area some Republicans have proposed protecting.
- If the $1.2 trillion target isn't reached by Nov. 23, or Congress doesn't approve a bill by Dec. 23, deep spending cuts known as a "sequester" would begin to take effect in 2013.
- The reason is we provided for a backstop in case Congress didn't act on time, this so-called sequester that is put into statute at the end of the year, taking effect a year later.
- Because naturally no one trusted anyone else in this game, the money would then be deposited with a second category of agent, known as the sequester, who would hold the cash available for inspection.
- The second debt limit increase will require an additional $1.2 trillion reduction to be accomplished either by the super committee or by automatic across-the-board spending reductions called a sequester—a budget-control mechanism from Gramm-Rudman.
- Reforesting large areas of degraded landscape is central to the project's goal of promoting sustainable use of tropical forests, whose conservation Goodall believes is vital in the fight against climate change because of their ability to "sequester" -- or remove -- CO2 from the atmosphere.
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