sequestration

The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.

Noun

  1. The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
    • the sequestration of juries
    • In possession of ample property, it was not from motives of retrenchment he had quitted the frequented scenes of life; sequestration during the first months of marriage had been his choice, equally as that of his...
    • At that time there was no rigid sequestration on the islands, and lepers, if they chose, were allowed to go free. - 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 55”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset &...
  2. A budget cut resulting from a separation of funding mechanisms.
    • The company took a revenue hit when sequestration dried up some of its best contracts.

Origin

From Middle French sequestration, from Late Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō (“sequester”).

Forms

sequestrations

Derived

biosequestration carbon sequestration cryosequestration desequestration geosequestration immunosequestration leukosequestration nonsequestration resequestration