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Sequestration is the noun for a court’s taking of property from someone who has not paid their debts, and the holding of that property. So is the doing; sequestration is the name of the action, or of the state the property is in once it has been taken. It is a heavy legal word. In the news you will also hear sequestration for other “setting aside” ideas — keeping a jury away from people, or locking carbon away in trees and soil — but this entry is the debt-and-property meaning. In easy English: the court takes the things and keeps them because money is owed.
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組成From Middle French sequestration, from Late Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō, “to sequester, to set aside.”
同家族的字
- sequestratethe verb English later cut from this noun
- sequesterthe older verb from the same Latin root, “to set apart”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sequestrationnoun
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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 partner;[…]
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。