Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove or set apart; segregate or hide: synonym: isolate.
- intransitive verb To cause to withdraw into seclusion.
- intransitive verb To remove or isolate (a chemical, often a gas) from an environment by incorporation, mixing, or insertion under pressure.
- intransitive verb Law To take temporary possession of (property) as security against legal claims.
- intransitive verb To requisition and confiscate (enemy property).
- intransitive verb To undergo sequestration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put aside; remove; separate from other things; seclude; withdraw.
- In law:
- To separate from the owner for a time; seize or take possession of, as the property and income of a debtor, until the claims of creditors be satisfied.
- To set aside from the power of either party, as a matter at issue, by order of a court of law. For use in Scots law, see
sequestrate . See alsosequestration . Hence To seize for any purpose; confiscate; take possession of; appropriate. - To withdraw.
- In law, to renounce or decline, as a widow any concern with the estate of her husband.
- noun The act of sequestering; sequestration; separation; seclusion.
- noun In law, a person with whom two or more parties to a suit or controversy deposit the subject of controversy; a mediator or referee between two parties; an umpire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
- transitive verb To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- transitive verb To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- transitive verb To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
- noun rare Sequestration; separation.
- noun (Law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
- noun (Med.) Same as
Sequestrum . - intransitive verb obsolete To withdraw; to retire.
- intransitive verb (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
separate from all external influence. - verb To separate in order to
store . - verb chemistry To prevent an
ion in solution from behaving normally by forming acoordination compound - verb law To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as
security against legal claims. - verb US, politics, law To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- verb international law To seize and hold
enemy property . - noun
sequestration ;separation - noun law A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the
controversy ; one whomediates between two parties; areferee . - noun medicine A
sequestrum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
- verb keep away from others
- verb undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
- verb set apart from others
- verb take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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It should be interesting to see how April and Libra make out in sequester house.
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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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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.
Budgets, Business and Bernanke Gerard Baker 2011
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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.
The Budget Sequester's Silver Lining Phil Gramm 2011
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The enforcement mechanism—known as a sequester''—would force cuts for all federal programs including defense spending, an area some Republicans have proposed protecting.
Boehner Presses for Deficit Deal Naftali Bendavid 2011
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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.
Gimmicks Could Help Rescue Deficit Talks Janet Hook 2011
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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.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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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.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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This action, called a "sequester," would also generate $169 billion in saving from lower interest costs on the national debt.
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Older trees store more carbon, while younger trees remove, or sequester, more of it.
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