adjournment

English

Etymology

adjourn +‎ -ment

Noun

adjournment (countable and uncountable, plural adjournments)

1. The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.

   At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Definitions, pp. 15-16,^[1]

     A “meeting” of an assembly is terminated by a temporary adjournment; a “session” of an assembly ends with an adjournment without day, and may consist of many meetings […]

2. (rhetoric) Ampliatio.

Translations

the state of being adjourned

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 延緩／延缓 (zh) (yánhuǎn), 延缓 (zh) (yánhuǎn) (postponement), 休會／休会 (zh) (xiūhuì), 休会 (zh) (xiūhuì) (recess)

• French: ajournement (fr) m, suspension (fr) f
• German: Vertagung f (postponement), Verschiebung (de) f
• Hungarian: elhalasztás (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 延期 (ja) (えんき, enki) (postponement), 休会 (きゅうかい, kyūkai) (recess)
• Russian: отсро́чка (ru) f (otsróčka) (postponement), заде́ржка (ru) f (zadéržka) (delay), переры́в (ru) m (pererýv) (recess)
• Spanish: suspensión (es) f
• Swedish: ajournering c

See also

• adjournment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia