sequester

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Further the technique would sequester -- or lock up -- the carbon in seafloor sediments and deep ocean waters for thousands of years, he says.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to withdraw into seclusion.
  2. transitive verb To remove or set apart; segregate. See Synonyms at isolate.
  3. transitive verb Law To take temporary possession of (property) as security against legal claims.
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  • Definitive detection of nuclear localized ABC can be confirmed through an ability of classical cadherins to sequester ABC to cell junctions. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Earlier this year, Synovus formed a subsidiary corporation called Broadway Asset Management to sequester about $500 million in bad loans. —  Ledger-Enquirer: Breaking News
  • Since I was the equivalent of a dangerous blood clot in that malfunctioning organ, I was certainly at times subject to aggressive efforts at sequester, dissolution, removal. —  BlueOregon
  • So dumping corn stalks, wheat straw and other crop residues into the deep ocean, where cold and lack of oxygen would keep them from decomposing, would in effect sequester atmospheric CO2 on a time scale of millennia. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • "How are you going to regenerate this forest so you have trees on the landscape that keep growing and sequester carbon and hold the world together?" —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
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  1. Middle English sequestren, from Old French, from Latin sequestrāre, to give up for safekeeping, from Latin sequester, depositary, trustee; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English sequestre; from Old French sequestrer, French séquestrer = Provencal Portuguese sequestrar = Spanish secuestrar = Italian sequestrare, from Late Latin sequestrare, surrender, remove, lay aside, from Latin sequester, a mediator, trustee, agent; prob. orig. a ‘follower,’ one who attends, from sequi, follow, attend: see sequent.
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/səˈkwɛstɛr/
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