sequester
Remove from others
Sequester means to isolate or set apart.
A jury may be sequestered during a trial—kept separate from outside influence.
You might sequester yourself to focus on work: She sequestered herself in the cabin to finish her novel.
In law, to sequester assets is to seize them temporarily pending resolution of a dispute.
In U.S. budget policy, sequestration is the automatic withholding of government funds when spending limits are exceeded.
Isolation preventing disease transmission
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- isolationComplete separation from others
- segregationForced separation by group
- separationState of being apart
withdrawal · confinement · solitude · retreat · recluse · hermit · detachment · privacy
Take suddenly, forcibly
- impoundSeize by authority
- garnishDecorative food topping
- forfeitLose through violation
- attachJoin or connect
freeze · withhold · levy · confiscation · expropriate · appropriate · repossess · commandeer
quarantine
Isolation preventing disease transmission
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- isolationComplete separation from others
- segregationForced separation by group
separation · withdrawal · confinement · solitude · retreat · recluse · hermit · detachment · privacy · solitary
seize
Take suddenly, forcibly
attach · freeze · withhold · levy · confiscation · expropriate · appropriate · repossess · commandeer · dispossess
hide
Conceal or pelt
cache · squirrel away · tuck away · shelter · shield · screen · mask · withhold · suppress · veil
jury
Legal decision-making body
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
verdict · juror · impanel · testimony · evidence · witness · judge · foreman · defendant · bailiff
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- isolationloneliness, quarantine, seclusion, lockdown, solitude
- court proceedingstrial, arraignment, verdict, hearing, testimony
- federal budgetfederal budget, appropriations, deficit, national budget, surplus
- fiscal crisesdebt crisis, budget crisis, fiscal crisis, fiscal emergency, budget deficit
- jury trialjury deliberation, jury selection, juror selection, voir dire, jury pool
sequesterintegrate
Combine into unified whole
unite · join · merge · assimilate · incorporate
- sequestered juryIsolated courtroom decision-makers
- jury sequestrationConfining panelists during trial
- carbon sequestrationRemoving and storing atmospheric CO2
sequestered, sequestration, sequestrate, sequestering, sequesters