Sequestration
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Sequestration or sequester may refer to:
Law and government
- Sequestration (law), the seizure of property for creditors or the state
- Jury sequestration, the isolation of a jury
- Bankruptcy, in Scottish law
- Budget sequestration, U.S. legal procedure in which automatic spending cuts are triggered
- Budget sequestration in 2013, automatic spending cuts to the U.S. federal budget beginning in 2013
- A euphemism for asset forfeiture by the state
Science
- Carbon sequestration
- Biological processes in which an organism accumulates a compound or tissue:
- Bonding between a polydentate ligand and a central atom as in a chelate complex
Other uses
- Sequester (band)
- Sequestered (TV series), a Crackle television series
- Vibius Sequester, (4th or 5th century), Roman geographer
- Protective sequestration, a public health measure
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