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sequester

[si-kwes-ter]

verb (used with object)

to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.

to remove or separate.

Law. to remove (property) 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 (enemy property).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English sequestren < Latin sequestrāre to put in hands of a trustee, derivative of sequester trustee, depositary

Related forms

se·ques·tra·ble, adjective

non·se·ques·tered, adjective

self-se·ques·tered, adjective

un·se·ques·tered, adjective

Synonyms
1, 2. isolate.

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I've tried to sequester the remaining boxes and homeless items to a single room, but they keep bleeding out into other areas.

Fifth, stop building new coal-fired power plants, unless they can capture and sequester the carbon they emit.

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Farming has also chopped up soils in ways that cause them to give off carbon dioxide rather than to sequester it.

I've tried to sequester the remaining boxes and homeless items to a single room, but they keep bleeding out into other areas.

Fifth, stop building new coal-fired power plants, unless they can capture and sequester the carbon they emit.

The question was whether easily grown crop plants could also sequester gold, and in nanoparticle form.

The article is about using it first to sequester carbon released by creating ethanol from current plant growth.

It is also supposed to sequester carbon in the form of an agriculturally useful char to balance whatever carbon dioxide it emits.

Trying to sequester the carbon dioxide underground during the refining process would be hugely expensive.

The reason for this is that trees affect the world's temperature by means other than the carbon they sequester.

Yes, trees and plants sequester carbon in their fibers as part of their growth.

It gives you a more concentrated stream of carbon that you can sequester underground more cheaply.

It also discounts a geological-time-honoured way to sequester carbon.

Randerson's findings have implications for tree-planting projects designed to sequester carbon by trapping it in forests.

Every attempt is being made to sequester high rollers from the rest of the airport.

Congress should sequester all monies returned by states which decide against investing in this boondoggle.

Use the gas to get electricity and the biochar to sequester carbon in soils which then give greater yields.

The argument for this is that over a century your average tree will sequester about one metric ton of carbon dioxide.

But they have said they will sequester their troops under international supervision so long as the military agrees to do the same.

Nor would you sequester faculty members into departments organized around academic disciplines.

The discovery offers proof that it would be possible to sequester carbon dioxide deep below the seabed, researchers say.

None of the efforts to sequester or reduce carbon, even if they are effective, will have much change on the climate.

But athletic fields are maintained more closely, and they don't sequester any carbon.

Cima's monitor is a small plastic container with a reservoir to sequester the magnetic nanoparticles so they can't get out.

Less known is their ability to sequester vast amounts of carbon-up to five times that stored in tropical forests.

The trees are a natural way to sequester carbon dioxide through their normal metabolic processes.

Sonoma has its fair share of high-end resorts where one can sequester oneself from the rest of the world.

Coal also wants financial support for research into ways to capture carbon emissions and sequester them underground.

All of these uncertainties mean that it's hard to put a price on what it would cost to sequester carbon in the reservoir.

Algae does not sequester carbon dioxide unless the algae gets buried.

If you sequester and bury it, you have buried two oxygen molecules for every one of carbon, and taken them out of the system.

Ebinger also said more money should be put toward technologies to remove and sequester carbon from coal.

Biochar may not sequester all of society's excess carbon, but it can play a tangible role in limiting emissions.

The voluntary offset projects would pay farmers and other landowners for activities that sequester carbon.

Put the carbon in land fill to sequester it and use the hydrogen for producing energy.

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World English Dictionary

sequester (sɪˈkwɛstə)

—vb
1.	to remove or separate
2.	(usually passive) to retire into seclusion
3.	law to take (property) temporarily out of the possession of its owner, esp until the claims of creditors are satisfied or a court order is complied with
4.	international law to requisition or appropriate (enemy property)

[C14: from Late Latin sequestrāre to surrender for safekeeping, from Latin sequester a trustee]

se'questrable

—*adj*

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sequester

late 14c., from O.Fr. sequestrer (14c.), from L.L. sequestrare "to place in safekeeping," from L. sequester "trustee, mediator," probably originally "follower," related to sequi "to follow" (see sequel). Meaning "seize by authority, confiscate" is first attested 1510s.

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