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Definition sequester

Etymology

From Old French sequestrer , from Late Latin sequestr? (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“follow”).

Verb

sequester (third-person singular simple present sequesters, present participle sequestering, simple past and past participle sequestered)

  1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
  2. To separate in order to store.
  3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  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.
  7. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
  8. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
  9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
  10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Noun

sequester (plural sequesters)

  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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