Reserve vs Sequester - What's the difference?
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(label) Restriction.
# The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation; exception.
# Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
# A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
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, title= # A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
# (label) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US (reservation).)
# (label) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
# (label) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
# Wine held back and aged before being sold.
(label) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
# (label) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
# (label) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
To keep back; to retain.
To keep in store for future or special use.
* Jonathan Swift
To book in advance; to make a reservation.
(obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
* Hooker
To separate in order to store.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
* Francis Bacon
(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
(transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
To seize and hold enemy property.
To withdraw; to retire.
* Milton
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
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.
(medicine) A sequestrum.
(Webster 1913)
As an adjective reserve
is reserved.As a verb sequester is
to separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.As a noun sequester is
sequestration; separation.reserve
English
Noun
(en noun)- .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
Synonyms
* reservation, res * (restraint of freedom in words or actions) self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity * substitute * (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples) rezDerived terms
* Federal Reserve * Federal Reserve System * nature reserve * reserve bank * reserve price * wildlife reserveVerb
- We reserve the right to make modifications.
- This cake is reserved for the guests!
- Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.
- I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
Anagrams
* * * ----sequester
English
Verb
(en verb)- The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
- when men most sequester themselves from action
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
- I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
- It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
- The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
- to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
Synonyms
* segregateNoun
(en noun)- (Bouvier)