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词汇 sequestrate
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Definition of sequestrate in English:

sequestrate

verb ˈsiːkwəstreɪtˈsiːkwɛstreɪt
[with object]
  • 1Take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met.

    扣押(资产)

    the power of courts to sequestrate the assets of unions

    法庭扣押工会财产的权力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A legal attack was waged against the union, during which there were repeated efforts to sequestrate its assets.
    • Eventually the bailiff was charged and his property sequestrated, the governor was removed and later arrested, and - fifteen years after the original dispute - compensation payment made by the estate to some of the peasants.
    • The fear that during unofficial strikes the courts could sequestrate the unions' funds has made the bureaucracy shy away from using the kind of tactics required to win disputes.
    • It is preceded by a writ and operates by sequestrating all the real and personal property of the union or person subject to the order, and is cumulative to other methods of enforcing an order such as committal.
    • The reason for this is simple-the union's funds would have been sequestrated.
    • This was crucially important, as when the funds of the union were sequestrated, the support groups were independent of the union and their funds could not be touched.
    • An application by the corporation seeking to sequestrate the assets of the Union has already been adjourned until later this month.
    Synonyms
    seize, commandeer, expropriate, annex, arrogate, sequester, take possession of, take over, assume, secure, acquire, wrest, usurp, claim, lay claim to, hijack
    1. 1.1 Take forcible possession of (something); confiscate.
      没收
      in November 1956 the property was sequestrated by the authorities
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their property and businesses were registered and sometimes sequestrated.
      • Various properties, including their luxury villa, were sequestrated.
      • The bill also expands the power of the Terrorism Act 2000 by enabling the property or cash held by an organisation deemed as terrorist to be sequestrated.
      • It was then sequestrated in November 1956 by the Egyptian government.
      Synonyms
      confiscate, seize, take possession of, take, sequester, appropriate, expropriate, impound, commandeer, arrogate
      Law distrain, attach, disseize
      Scottish Law poind
    2. 1.2 Legally place (the property of a bankrupt) in the hands of a trustee for division among the creditors.
      把(破产者的财产)交由财产受托人保管(以便在债权人中分配)
      a trustee in a sequestrated estate

      托管财产受托人。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • His multi-million rand estate was sequestrated in September last year after he went into debt to the tune of R10 million to Standard Bank.
      • The park was auctioned two weeks ago as part of the insolvent estate which was sequestrated by the High Court last August.
    3. 1.3 Declare (someone) bankrupt.
      宣布…破产
      two more poll tax rebels were sequestrated

      又有两个不交人头税的人被宣布破产。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you are sequestrated, the process is pretty public.
      • At a hearing last month, a charge of failure to conduct personal and business financial affairs to avoid allowing himself to be sequestrated was found proved.
      • He accepted an investment from a Cape Town woman about two weeks before he was sequestrated.
      • He was sequestrated last year and had few assets and no travel documents with which to leave the country.
      • He owes substantial sums to a firm of lawyers who were forced in 1996 to sequestrate him.
      • In Scotland, the number of Scots being sequestrated reached a record level for the second quarter in a row.

Derivatives

  • sequestrable

  • adjectivesɪˈkwɛstrəb(ə)lsəˈkwɛstrəb(ə)l
    • Jurisdictional grounds not accepted by the Regulation could be used in order to avoid a legal vacuum, for example, in a Member State where the defendant debtor has sequestrable assets that otherwise would be beyond the reach of his creditors.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This condition is normally fulfilled, for example, when a defendant foreign manufacturer had exported his products directly to the forum state where they caused the injury which is the basis of the dispute, but not by the mere presence in the forum state of sequestrable assets belonging to a foreign defendant in the case of money claims totally unrelated to that state.
  • sequestrator

  • noun ˈsiːkwɛstreɪtəˈsiːkwəstreɪtə
    • We appoint as custodian and sequestrator the Port Authority of Aliveri.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And this gives them all, and every one of them in particular, a right to see that the sequestrator carefully performs his trust.
      • In March, 1918, the sequestrator appointed by the German government took over the property of the German corporation and the management of its business.
      • The writ binds all property of the person sequestered from the date of its issue, and the sequestrators enter at once to take possession of his real and personal estate.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'separate from general access'): from late Latin sequestrat- 'given up for safekeeping', from the verb sequestrare (see sequester).

Definition of sequestrate in US English:

sequestrate

verb
  • another term for sequester

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘separate from general access’): from late Latin sequestrat- ‘given up for safekeeping’, from the verb sequestrare (see sequester).

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