搜尋結果
sequester
- IPA[səˈkwestər]
美式
- isolate or hide away;take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met
- a general cut in government spending
verb: sequester, 3rd person present: sequesters, gerund or present participle: sequestering, past tense: sequestered, past participle: sequestered
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. isolate or hide away Tiberius was sequestered on an island the jurors had been sequestered since Monday 同義詞
- 2. take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met the power of courts to sequester the assets of unions
- ▪ take forcible possession of (something); confiscate rebel property was sequestered and a military government installed
- ▪ legally place (the property of a bankrupt) in the hands of a trustee for division among the creditors a trustee in a sequestered estate
- 3. form a chelate or other stable compound with (an ion, atom, or molecule) so that it is no longer available for reactions non-precipitating water softeners use complex phosphates to sequester calcium and magnesium ions the organic sequestering agent EDTA
名詞
- 1. US a general cut in government spending if the budget deal hadn't gone through, there would have been a sequester of at least $100 billion