to sequester
3
8.6
- verb
- /sɪˈkwɛstər/
- Formal
:
embargar
- And, you know, when the jury deliberates, I'll have to be sequestered, which means I'll have to stay in a motel and you'll have to stay with Mrs. Kolodny.
Examples
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To protect the evidence, the authorities had to sequester the entire estate.
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April 21—Hughes orders the defendants to allow Bail to examine computers or have the computers sequestered.
Academic text (2007) -
Which evidence on this case would you like to sequester?
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I ought to be the one deciding what evidence to sequester, sir.
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The judge has sequestered the jury.
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Now, for the remainder of this trial, our jury is to be sequestered.
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The jury was to be sequestered to avoid the kind of events that occurred in Birmingham three years earlier.
Academic text (1997) -
We got the jury sequestered, didn't we?
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Well, ma'am, what I want you to understand is that this may be a lengthy trial, and that you would be sequestered during deliberations.
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The judge decided to sequester the property until the trial concluded.
Synonyms
156
4.6
To take something using legal power, often for a short time
154
5.5
To take something away from someone because of the law or as a punishment
50
7.1
To take someone's property by legal order to pay a debt
38
7.2
To take and keep something by law, often cars or goods
To legally take someone's property to get unpaid rent or debt
Antonyms
How Seized
- Formal
3
8.6
38
7.2
- Formal
50
7.1
- Formal
37
6.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sequester comes from the Latin sequestrare, meaning 'to set aside' or 'give to a keeper'. That's why in law to sequester property means the court takes it and holds it safely until the case is decided.