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- Dictionarysequestration/ˌsiːkwəˈstreɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the action of sequestrating or taking legal possession of assets: "if such court injunctions are ignored, sequestration of trade union assets will follow"
- 2. the action of chemically sequestering a substance: "carbon sequestration"
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the act of separating and storing a harmful substance such as carbon dioxide in a way that keeps it safe: We are actively pursuing new environmental approaches like carbon sequestration. natural processes that benefit people, such as the sequestration of carbon in soil and forests. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. See.
: a legal writ authorizing a sheriff or commissioner to take into custody the property of a defendant who is in contempt until the orders of a court are complied with. b. : a deposit whereby a neutral depositary agrees to hold property in litigation and to restore it to the party to whom it is adjudged to belong. 3.
the act of separating and storing a harmful substance such as carbon dioxide in a way that keeps it safe: We are actively pursuing new environmental approaches like carbon sequestration. natural processes that benefit people, such as the sequestration of carbon in soil and forests. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. See.
noun. removal or separation; banishment or exile. a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement. segregation from others; isolation: sequestration of jurors during a trial. Law. the sequestering of property. confiscation or seizure.
May 30, 2023 · Sequestration is a term adopted by Congress to describe a fiscal policy process that automatically reduces spending increases across most departments.
noun. 1. the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered. 2. law. the sequestering of property. 3. chemistry. the effective removal of ions from a solution by coordination with another type of ion or molecule to form complexes that do not have the same chemical behaviour as the original ions. See also sequestrant. Collins English Dictionary.
→ sequester. (Definition of sequestrate from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of sequestrate. sequestrate. That many ministers of parishes where iconoclasm took place were subsequently sequestrated points to a pre-history of conflict that was more widely shared. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
noun. /ˌsiːkwəˈstreɪʃn/, /ˌsekwəˈstreɪʃn/ [uncountable, countable] (law) the act of taking control of somebody's property or assets until a debt has been paid. the sequestration of assets. Take your English to the next level. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
sequestration. ( ˌsiːkwɛˈstreɪʃən) n. 1. the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered. 2. (Law) law the sequestering of property. 3. (Chemistry) chem the effective removal of ions from a solution by coordination with another type of ion or molecule to form complexes that do not have the same chemical behaviour as the original ions.
sequestration. noun. the act of segregating or sequestering. “ sequestration of the jury”. synonyms: segregation. see more. noun. seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized. synonyms: requisition.
