Sequestering - English meaning

adjective

Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

Usage examples:

This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb

Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

Usage examples:

The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

verb

Take or claim (something) without justification.

Usage examples:

They arrogate to themselves the ability to divine the nation's true interests

verb

To take something without having the right to do so

Usage examples:

They arrogate to themselves the power to punish people.

verb

Join or fasten (something) to something else.

Usage examples:

Attach your safety line to the bridge

verb

Officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes.

Usage examples:

A nearby house had been commandeered by the army

verb

Take arbitrarily or by force

verb

To take possession or control of private property, esp. by force

Usage examples:

Some visitors commandeered outdoor tables on the balcony.

verb

Take or seize (someone's property) with authority.

Usage examples:

The guards confiscated his camera

verb

To officially take private property away from someone, usually by legal authority

Usage examples:

Customs agents confiscated her bags., [ u ] the law allows for confiscation of vehicles used in cri…

verb

To officially take something away from someone, sometimes for a limited period, because they have done something illegal

Usage examples:

The organization has notified u.s. customs to confiscate all imported fire extinguishers with the c…

verb

Dispossess (someone) of land or property.

Usage examples:

His ancestors had held the land but had been disseized in the fifteenth century

verb

Seize (someone's property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed.

Usage examples:

Legislation has restricted the right to distrain goods found upon the premises

verb

To take and sell property from someone who owes you money in order to pay back their debt

Usage examples:

Under the law, landlords have a legal right to distrain goods from a defaulting tenant in lieu of r…

verb

(of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit.

Usage examples:

Their assets were expropriated by the government

verb

To take and keep money or property belonging to someone else

verb

If a government expropriates property, it takes it for public use, sometimes without payment to the owner

Usage examples:

The new regime wiped out organized crime and vice, expropriated factories and built new ones, setti…

verb

Seize and take legal custody of (something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents) because of an infringement of a law.

Usage examples:

Vehicles parked where they cause an obstruction will be impounded

verb

Distrain or impound (a person's property).

Usage examples:

The bailiff and his men poind his goods in the name of the law

verb

Leave one's job and cease to work, typically on reaching the normal age for leaving service.

Usage examples:

He retired from the navy in 1986

noun

A movement in which one leg is raised at right angles to the body until the toe is in line with the knee of the supporting leg.

Usage examples:

The orchestra stopped, and she continued to stay on pointe; sometimes moving from retiré into a la …

verb

Take hold of suddenly and forcibly.

Usage examples:

She jumped up and seized his arm

verb

Take hold of; grab

verb

To take something quickly and hold it

Usage examples:

He seized her arm to lead her through the crowd., fig. while she was distracted, i seized the oppor…

verb

Take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met.

Usage examples:

The power of courts to sequestrate the assets of unions

verb

→  sequester

verb

Lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold.

Usage examples:

Mrs morgan took another biscuit

noun

A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time.

Usage examples:

He completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes

verb

Get into one's hands