adjourn
English
Etymology
From Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").
Pronunciation
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Verb
adjourn (third-person singular simple present adjourns, present participle adjourning, simple past and past participle adjourned)
- (transitive) To postpone.
- The trial was adjourned for a week.
- (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
- Barrow
- It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
- Barrow
- (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
- The court will adjourn for lunch.
- 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 10, pp. 25-26,[1]
- The Form of this motion is, “When this assembly adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time.”
- (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.
- After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.
Translations
to postpone
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to defer
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to end or suspend an event
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to move from one place to another
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