sequester
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Động từ
verb- 1.
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
- 2.
To separate in order to store.
The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
- 3.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
Đồng nghĩa: allocate, appropriate, shelve, assign, dedicate, detach, designate, earmark, preselect, put aside, secern, secernate, separate, sepose, sequester, set apart, set aside
- 4.
(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
- 5.
(law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- 6.
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
- 7.
(US, transitive)(transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
- 8.
(international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- 9.
(intransitive)To withdraw; to retire.
- 10.
(dated)To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
sequestration; separation
- 2.
(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
- 3.
(medicine) A sequestrum.
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ine-pro From Middle English sequestren and sequestre, from Old French sequestrer, from sequestrō (separate, give up for safekeeping), from Latin sequester (mediator, depositary), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (follow).