sequester
/sɪˈkwes·tər/ v [T] lawDefinition
› to keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case: The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.
(Definition of sequester v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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