sequestration
removal or separation; banishment or exile.
a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.
segregation from others; isolation: sequestration of jurors during a trial.
Law.
the sequestering of property.
confiscation or seizure.
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.
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.
the process of implementing an automatic cut in government spending across most departments, agencies, etc.: efforts to avoid or delay sequestration.
an instance of this: An $80 billion sequestration would lead to massive layoffs.
Origin of sequestration
1Other words from sequestration
- non·se·ques·tra·tion, noun
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How to use sequestration in a sentence
The healthier the soil, the greater its capacity for carbon sequestration, and the greater the farm’s biodiversity, the healthier soil.
Sustainable, native lawns are better for soil health and carbon sequestration without the need for trees because they can trap large amounts of carbon just like trees do.
Planting more trees for carbon sequestration or crops for fuels will compete with growing food for an expanding global population.
The UN climate report pins hopes on carbon removal technologies that barely exist | James Temple | August 9, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIf healthy forests are the safe, reliable way to sequester carbon, industrial carbon capture and sequestration is the opposite.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Is a Return to the Old Way of Politics. That’s A Problem for the Climate | Michael E. Mann | August 6, 2021 | TimeTo replace that income, the company is converting the 300,000 acres of forest it owns in the Tongass to carbon sequestration.
Then money for the DOD program was sidelined by the sequestration budget cuts mandated by Congress, Retsky was told.
He has also managed to trim costs in an era of sequestration.
Spy Chief James Clapper: We Can’t Stop Another Snowden | Eli Lake | February 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe expects more cutbacks to Head Start when budget sequestration kicks in again in 2015.
In a nutshell: She screwed struggling North Carolinians by backing sequestration and the shutdown.
Can B-List Hollywood Stars Shine in Washington? | Michelle Cottle | February 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is 100 percent opposed to derailing the American Dream by allowing sequestration to be tinkered with.
The fugitives had sufficient inducements to return to their hearths, without the fear of sequestration.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeSo the Ships were seized; held in sequestration, "till many of the cargoes (being perishable goods, some even fish) rotted."
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVII. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlylePrecisely in the same circumstances of idle and absurd sequestration stands the term polemic.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) | Thomas De QuinceyA more retired spot, a completer sequestration from the world of mart and highway, it would have been hard to find.
Audrey | Mary JohnstonBewildered, I signed and paid the sequestration Commissioner out o' my buckskin pouch in hard coin.
The Little Red Foot | Robert W. Chambers
British Dictionary definitions for sequestration
/ (ˌsiːkwɛˈstreɪʃən) /
the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered
law the sequestering of property
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
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