noun
Meaning 1
sequestration; separation
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
sequester
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /sɪˈkwɛs.tə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /səˈkwɛs.tə/
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General-American: /sɪˈkwɛs.tɚ/
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General-American: /səˈkwɛs.tɚ/
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rhymes with -ɛstə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 3
A sequestrum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
Meaning 4
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
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verb
Meaning 5
To separate in order to store.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
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verb
Meaning 6
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: allocate, appropriate, shelve, assign, dedicate, detach, designate, earmark, preselect, put aside, secern, secernate, separate, sepose, sequester, set apart, set aside
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verb
Meaning 7
To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
Meaning 8
To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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verb
Meaning 9
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
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verb
Meaning 10
To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, transitive
Topics: government, law, politics
Examples
- The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
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verb
Meaning 11
To seize and hold enemy property.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: international law
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verb
Meaning 12
To withdraw; to retire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 13
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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verb
Meaning 14
set apart from others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separate, disunite, divide, part
verb
Meaning 15
keep away from others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: isolate, insulate
verb
Meaning 16
undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The cations were sequestered
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Broader terms: change
verb
Meaning 17
take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The FBI seized the drugs
- The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
- The police confiscated the stolen artwork
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: impound, attach, confiscate, seize
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: take
Narrower terms: condemn, garnishee, garnish, distrain
verb
Meaning 18
requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the estate was sequestered
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Broader terms: take
History
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”).
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: отделяне (otdeljane) — sequestration, separation
- Bulgarian: изолиране (izolirane) — sequestration, separation
- German: Abscheidung — sequestration, separation
- German: Abtrennung — sequestration, separation
- German: Absonderung — sequestration, separation
- Polish: areszt — sequestration, separation
- Polish: sekwestr — sequestration, separation
- Polish: sekwestracja — sequestration, separation
- German: Zwangsverwalter — a person with whom two or more parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy
- German: Sequester — a person with whom two or more parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy
- Bulgarian: изолирам (izoliram) — to separate from all external influence
- Chinese Mandarin: 隔离 (gélí) — to separate from all external influence
- Chinese Mandarin: 隔绝 (géjué) — to separate from all external influence
- Czech: oddělit — to separate from all external influence
- Dutch: afzonderen — to separate from all external influence
- Finnish: eristää — to separate from all external influence
- Finnish: erottaa — to separate from all external influence
- French: séquestrer — to separate from all external influence
- French: mettre sous séquestre — to separate from all external influence
- German: absondern — to separate from all external influence
- Hungarian: elkülönít — to separate from all external influence
- Hungarian: különválaszt — to separate from all external influence
- Korean: 격리하다 (gyeongnihada) — to separate from all external influence
- Norwegian: sekvestrere — to separate from all external influence
- Romanian: sechestra — to separate from all external influence
- Romanian: pune sub sechestru — to separate from all external influence
- Russian: изолировать (izolirovatʹ) — to separate from all external influence
- Spanish: separar — to separate from all external influence
- Spanish: aislar — to separate from all external influence
- Spanish: enclaustrar — to separate from all external influence
- Spanish: inclaustrar — to separate from all external influence
- Turkish: ayırmak — to separate from all external influence
- Turkish: tecrit etmek — to separate from all external influence
- Bulgarian: заде́лям (zadéljam) — to separate in order to store
- Bulgarian: заделя́ (zadeljá) — to separate in order to store
- Bulgarian: отде́лям (otdéljam) — to separate in order to store
- Bulgarian: отделя́ (otdeljá) — to separate in order to store
- German: abscheiden — to separate in order to store
- Russian: секвестировать (sekvestirovatʹ) — to separate in order to store
- Russian: уре́зать (urézatʹ) — to separate in order to store
- French: séquestrer — chemistry: to prevent an ion from behaving normally
- Romanian: sechestra — chemistry: to prevent an ion from behaving normally
- Chinese Mandarin: 假扣押 (jiǎ kòuyā) — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- Finnish: takavarikoida — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- German: sequestrieren — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- German: beschlagnahmen und zwangsverwalten — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- German: unter Sequester stellen — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- Hungarian: zár alá vesz — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- Hungarian: lefoglal — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- Hungarian: elkoboz — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- Hungarian: zárol — law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
- Hungarian: elkülönít — US, politics, law: to remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget
- Hungarian: félrevonul — to withdraw; to retire
- Hungarian: elzárkózik — to withdraw; to retire
- Hungarian: visszavonul — to withdraw; to retire
- Hungarian: elkülönül — to withdraw; to retire