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Sequester vs Foreclose - What's the difference?

sequester | foreclose |

As verbs the difference between sequester and foreclose

is that sequester is to separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw while foreclose is to repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments.

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)

    foreclose

    English

    (Foreclosure)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments.
    • They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.
  • To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
  • To prevent from doing something.
  • To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
  • * Carew
    • The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

    Derived terms

    * foreclosee * forecloser * foreclosure * foreclosable