The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SEQUESTER
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More clues leading to the result SEQUESTER
- Remove question for head of maths in term
- Appropriate header concealed from user adopting online search?
- Isolate soil pipe with search for its centre
- Appropriate goal secured by Sybil, say
- Set aside search in spot by river
- Appropriate person looking for most prosperous area of the country?
- Appropriate investigation held by prophet
- Appropriate search within bishopric on river
- Prophet having quest set apart
- South Pole's last seeker set off alone
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The straight part
We know that "Isolate" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case isolate = sequester.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SEQUESTER mean?
SEQUESTER noun- Sequestration; separation
- A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
- A sequestrum.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- To separate in order to store.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- 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.
- To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- To seize and hold enemy property.
- To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.