English Dictionary

sequester

IPA（発音記号）

/sɪˈkwɛs.tə/

動詞

アメリカ英語 他動詞 自動詞

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw. / To separate in order to store. / To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

日本語の意味

外部の影響から隔離する、独立させること。 / 周囲から切り離し、引き離すこと。 / 保管・貯蔵のために分離すること。 / 他と区別して取り置くこと。

To protect the integrity of the experiment, the scientists agreed to sequester the study participants from external contact.

実験の信頼性を守るため、科学者たちは研究参加者を外部の影響から完全に隔離することに合意した。

意味（1）

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.

The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.

意味（2）

To separate in order to store.

The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.

意味（3）

To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.

意味（4）

(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound

意味（5）

(law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.

意味（6）

To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.

It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

意味（7）

(transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.

意味（8）

(international law) To seize and hold enemy property.

意味（9）

(intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.

to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics

意味（10）

To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

sequesters （ present singular third-person ）

sequestering （ participle present ）

sequestered （ participle past ）

sequestered （ past ）