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Sequester vs Repossess - What's the difference?

sequester | repossess |

In lang=en terms the difference between sequester and repossess

is that sequester is a person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee while repossess is to reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.

As verbs the difference between sequester and repossess

is that sequester is to separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw while repossess is to reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.

As a noun sequester

is sequestration; separation.

sequester

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
    • The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
  • * Hooker
    • when men most sequester themselves from action
  • To separate in order to store.
    • The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
  • To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
  • (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
  • (legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
  • To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
  • * South
    • It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
  • (transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
    • The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
  • To seize and hold enemy property.
  • To withdraw; to retire.
  • * Milton
    • to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
  • To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

    • Related terms

    * sequestrable adjective * sequestered adjective * sequestrate verb * sequestration noun * sequestrator noun

    Synonyms

    * segregate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • sequestration; separation
  • (legal) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
    • (Bouvier)
  • (medicine) A sequestrum.
    • (Webster 1913)

    repossess

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (legal) To reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.
  • (dated, reflexive) To gain back possession of.
    • to repossess oneself of something lost

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