sequester
封存,查封,扣押,封锁
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Definitions
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- : to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- : to remove or separate; banish; exile.
- : to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
- : Law. to remove temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.
- : International Law. to requisition, hold, and control.
- : to trap and isolate it in a natural or artificial storage area: There are processes to sequester carbon from a power plant's exhaust gases.Plants can sequester toxins and store them in their tissues.
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- : an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.
- : sequestration: domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester.
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Examples
Used, hubcap-free tires are well known to sequester standing water—a perfect breeding ground for the next generation of mosquitos.
The statement was solely focused on spending levels under the omnibus and their increase over the sequester.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 and the sequester have cut discretionary spending across the board.
And the overall funding levels, while better than the sequester, are still awfully low.
It provides $63 billion in sequester relief, which is partially offset by a $23 billion mix of spending cuts and “fees.”
Some hoped to overthrow all law and order, that they might revel in the wealth they could then sequester.
If any proven guilt results you shall sequester the property of offenders, in order to assure the judgment.
I have been sent to sequester myself in my see; I have been set to gnaw my fingers as they had been old bones thrown to a dog.
As surely as the wolf retires before cities, does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer.
All that was necessary was to sequester the vessels and goods of merchants belonging to the nation at which it wished to strike.