sequester
verb (used with object)
to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
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Says Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici: "It's going to come as a shock to a lot of people who voted for this that there will be sequestering in March."
From Time Magazine Archive
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