sequestrate
verb(also sequester)
(Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they sequestrate | |
| he / she / it sequestrates | |
| past simple sequestrated | |
| past participle sequestrated | |
| -ing form sequestrating |
- sequestrate something
to take control of somebody’s property or assets until a debt has been paid 强制管理，扣押（债务人资产） The two businessmen were fined, and had their assets sequestrated. 这两个商人被罚款，他们的资产被没收。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘separate from general access’): from late Latin sequestrat- ‘given up for safe keeping’, from the verb sequestrare ‘commit for safe keeping’, from Latin sequester ‘trustee’.