0 present participle of sequester
1 to take temporary possession of someone's property until they have paid money that is owed or until they have obeyed a court order
2 to keep people, especially a jury, together in a place so that they cannot be influenced by other people, by newspaper reports, etc.
3 to separate and store a harmful substance such as carbon dioxide in a way that keeps it safe:
The amount of carbon in the atmosphere must be reduced, either by lowering emissions or by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.
They should aim to sequester all significant caches of highly enriched uranium used in research reactors worldwide.
Ecosystems with high biodiversity will take up and sequester more carbon and nitrogen.
Mercury and other sequestered toxins are leaching out of the melting permafrost and into the ocean.
Therefore, marginal lands are not necessarily more economically efficient at sequestering carbon, and indeed the opposite may be true.
Tree-based systems are a convenient way of sequestering carbon from the atmosphere to reduce net emissions.
Conservation agriculture is but one of several land management options for sequestering carbon in soils.
An institution provides well-bounded space to contain evidence of ageing and dying amongst older people, thereby sequestering people from wider society.
