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.

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