sequestration
Americannoun
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removal or separation; banishment or exile.
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a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.
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segregation from others; isolation.
sequestration of jurors during a trial.
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Law.
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the sequestering of property.
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confiscation or seizure.
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Chemistry. the combining of metallic ions with a suitable reagent into a stable, soluble complex in order to prevent the ions from combining with a substance with which they would otherwise have formed an insoluble precipitate, from causing interference in a particular reaction, or from acting as undesirable catalysts.
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the trapping of a chemical in the atmosphere or environment and its isolation in a natural or artificial storage area.
Carbon sequestration can reduce global warming.
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the process of implementing an automatic cut in government spending across most departments, agencies, etc..
efforts to avoid or delay sequestration.
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an instance of this.
An $80 billion sequestration would lead to massive layoffs.
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noun
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the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered
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law the sequestering of property
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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 See also sequestrant
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sequestration
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin sequestrātiōn- (stem of sequestrātiō ), equivalent to sequestrāt ( us ) (past participle of sequestrāre to sequester ) + -iōn- -ion
Vocabulary lists containing sequestration
Earth Science - Middle School
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The Carbon Cycle
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Example Sentences
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The company is looking for $328 million from strategic investors to build its biggest carbon-capture and sequestration facility to date in oil-rich Alberta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Interest in biofertilisers is also tied to environmental concerns, with researchers saying they increase organic carbon in the soil, contributing to carbon sequestration.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
His family planned to continue the legal action but in November his estate was placed into sequestration – the Scottish legal equivalent of bankruptcy – due to costs linked to court action.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
They help slow climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in trees, a process known as carbon sequestration.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
"But we intend to call several of the law enforcement officers present in the courtroom, and I would like to invoke the rule of sequestration."
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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