sequester
Pronunciation: /sɪˈkwɛs.tə/
The English word “sequester” has 13 meanings listed here.
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.
- To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
- 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.
- To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- To seize and hold enemy property.
- To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
noun
- sequestration; separation
- A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
- A sequestrum.
Etymology
From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).
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- sequentialize
- sequentially
- sequentially compact
- sequentialness
- sequesterable
- sequestered
- sequesterer
- sequesterment
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