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sequestration

/see-kwes-trey-shuhn, si-kwes-/US // ˌsi kwɛsˈtreɪ ʃən, sɪ kwɛs- //UK // (ˌsiːkwɛˈstreɪʃən) //

封存,扣押,查封,隔离

Related Words

retirement退休,退役,退职,退休人员privacy隐私,隐私问题,隐私保护,隐私性shelter庇护所,避难所,遮蔽处,遮蔽物isolation隔离,孤立,孤立性,孤立的desolation荒凉,惆怅,荒芜,荒废solitude孤独,孤独感,孤寂,寂寞aloofness冷漠,冷淡,淡漠,冷漠性blockade封堵,封杀,封锁,封闭detachment脱离,分离,脱落,脱离感remoteness偏远,偏僻,遥远,偏远地区separation分离,分居,分开,离职withdrawal撤回,退出,撤出,撤销aloneness孤独感,孤独,孤独的人,孤独症separateness分离性,分离,独立性,分开性concealment隐蔽性,隐瞒,隐匿,掩饰quarantine隔离检疫,隔离,检疫,隔离区retreat撤退,退缩,闭关修炼,闭关hiding隐藏,躲藏,藏匿,隐藏的privateness隐私,私有化,隐私权,私隐reclusion归隐,归属感,归属,归纳

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : removal or separation; banishment or exile.
    • : a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.
    • : segregation from others; isolation: sequestration of jurors during a trial.
    • : Law. the sequestering of property.confiscation or seizure.
    • : Chemistry. the combining of metallic ions with a suitable reagent into a stable, soluble complex in order to prevent the ions from combining with a substance with which they would otherwise have formed an insoluble precipitate, from causing interference in a particular reaction, or from acting as undesirable catalysts.
    • : the trapping of a chemical in the atmosphere or environment and its isolation in a natural or artificial storage area: Carbon sequestration can reduce global warming.
    • : the process of implementing an automatic cut in government spending across most departments, agencies, etc.: efforts to avoid or delay sequestration.an instance of this: An $80 billion sequestration would lead to massive layoffs.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounseclusion
Synonyms
aloneness孤独感,孤独,孤独的人,孤独症aloofness冷漠,冷淡,淡漠,冷漠性blockade封堵,封杀,封锁,封闭concealment隐蔽性,隐瞒,隐匿,掩饰desolation荒凉,惆怅,荒芜,荒废detachment脱离,分离,脱落,脱离感hiding隐藏,躲藏,藏匿,隐藏的isolation隔离,孤立,孤立性,孤立的privacy隐私,隐私问题,隐私保护,隐私性privateness隐私,私有化,隐私权,私隐quarantine隔离检疫,隔离,检疫,隔离区reclusiveness包容性,隐蔽性,隐蔽性强,排他性remoteness偏远,偏僻,遥远,偏远地区retirement退休,退役,退职,退休人员retreat撤退,退缩,闭关修炼,闭关separateness分离性,分离,独立性,分开性separation分离,分居,分开,离职shelter庇护所,避难所,遮蔽处,遮蔽物solitude孤独,孤独感,孤寂,寂寞withdrawal撤回,退出,撤出,撤销beleaguerment困扰,困扰人的问题,困扰的问题,困扰着我们reclusion归隐,归属感,归属,归纳seclusiveness透明度,透明度高,透明度高的人,透明度和透明度

Examples

  • The healthier the soil, the greater its capacity for carbon sequestration, and the greater the farm’s biodiversity, the healthier soil.

  • Sustainable, native lawns are better for soil health and carbon sequestration without the need for trees because they can trap large amounts of carbon just like trees do.

  • Planting more trees for carbon sequestration or crops for fuels will compete with growing food for an expanding global population.

  • If healthy forests are the safe, reliable way to sequester carbon, industrial carbon capture and sequestration is the opposite.

  • To replace that income, the company is converting the 300,000 acres of forest it owns in the Tongass to carbon sequestration.

  • Then money for the DOD program was sidelined by the sequestration budget cuts mandated by Congress, Retsky was told.

  • He has also managed to trim costs in an era of sequestration.

  • He expects more cutbacks to Head Start when budget sequestration kicks in again in 2015.

  • In a nutshell: She screwed struggling North Carolinians by backing sequestration and the shutdown.

  • He is 100 percent opposed to derailing the American Dream by allowing sequestration to be tinkered with.

  • The fugitives had sufficient inducements to return to their hearths, without the fear of sequestration.

  • So the Ships were seized; held in sequestration, "till many of the cargoes (being perishable goods, some even fish) rotted."

  • Precisely in the same circumstances of idle and absurd sequestration stands the term polemic.

  • A more retired spot, a completer sequestration from the world of mart and highway, it would have been hard to find.

  • Bewildered, I signed and paid the Sequestration Commissioner out o' my buckskin pouch in hard coin.

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