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ALL meanings of sequestration

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  • noun sequestration kidnapping, abduction 1
  • noun sequestration removal or separation; banishment or exile. 1
  • noun sequestration a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement. 1
  • noun sequestration segregation from others; isolation: sequestration of jurors during a trial. 1
  • noun sequestration Law. the sequestering of property. confiscation or seizure. 1
  • noun sequestration 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. 1
  • noun sequestration 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. 1
  • noun sequestration 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. 1
  • noun sequestration the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered 0
  • noun sequestration the sequestering of property 0
  • noun sequestration 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 0
  • noun sequestration a sequestering or being sequestered; seclusion; separation 0
  • noun sequestration the taking and holding of property pending resolution of a legal dispute 0
  • noun sequestration confiscation of property, as by court or government action 0
  • noun sequestration the process by which a sequestrum forms 0
  • noun sequestration the close union of ions in solution with an added material so that a stable, soluble complex is produced 0
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