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Sequestration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating. countable, uncountable

    "In possession of ample property, it was not from motives of retrenchment he had quitted the frequented scenes of life; sequestration during the first months of marriage had been his choice, equally as that of his partner;[…]"

  2. 2
    seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of segregating or sequestering wordnet
  4. 4
    a writ that authorizes the seizure of property wordnet
  5. 5
    the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French sequestration, from Late Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō (“sequester”).

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