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Meanings of sequestration in English

Portuguese
sequestro de bens
Catalan
rapte

Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized.

        sequestro de bens
        Portuguese
        segregação
        Catalan
        segregació

        The act of segregating or sequestering.

            segregação
            Usage of sequestration in English
            1
            The budget follows several years of deep cuts, also known as sequestration.
            Reuters
            2
            Seyrafi said network equipment makers and security companies are vulnerable to sequestration.
            Reuters
            3
            The House bill would have USDA oversee carbon sequestration work on farms.
            Reuters
            4
            On sequestration and law Why won't Congress pass another law, repealing sequestration?
            The Guardian
            5
            Right now, we've got it running but under Level 5 digital sequestration.
            For Honor We Stand
            6
            Some states began trimming their payments right after sequestration began in March.
            Ebony
            7
            They said that Congress should focus on averting the cuts from sequestration.
            Reuters
            8
            This is what sequestration has become: diabolical descriptions of soldiers mowing lawns.
            Wired
            9
            In sepsis, hepcidin induces iron sequestration to limit iron availability to pathogens.
            Pubmed
            10
            The sequestration cuts would strip just over 11 percent from Pentagon spending.
            Reuters
            11
            They mean, under pretext of sequestration, to make themselves absolute masters there.
            Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ...
            12
            CO2 sequestration is expensive in terms of both capital funding and energy lost.
            Reuters
            13
            The budget follows several years of deep spending cuts, also known as sequestration.
            Reuters
            14
            Our costs include the collateral benefits of carbon sequestration by reducing forest loss.
            The Guardian
            15
            Conclusions: CPB primes the inflammatory system causing pulmonary PMN sequestration without lung injury.
            Pubmed
            16
            Soil naturally absorbs carbon from the atmosphere through a process known as sequestration.
            Reuters
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            Sequestration through the time
            Sequestration across language varieties
            United States of America
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Less common