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- Dictionaryadjourn/əˈdʒəːn/
verb
- 1. break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later: "the meeting was adjourned until December 4"
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to have a pause or rest during a formal meeting or trial: The meeting was adjourned until Tuesday. Shall we adjourn for lunch? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cancelling and interrupting. adjourn to somewhere. arrest. break the cycle. broke. dislocation. diversion. halt. in midstream idiom. interrupt. kick. rain. scratch. scrub.
Jul 22, 2015 · 1. : to suspend a session indefinitely or to another time or place. Congress will not adjourn until the budget has been completed. 2. : to move to another place. We adjourned to the library. Synonyms. prorogate. prorogue. recess. suspend. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of adjourn in a Sentence.
to have a pause or rest during a formal meeting or trial: The meeting was adjourned until Tuesday. Shall we adjourn for lunch? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cancelling and interrupting. adjourn to somewhere. arrest. break the cycle. broke. call someone/something off. diversion. halt. in midstream idiom.
Adjourned definition: formally ended or closed. See examples of ADJOURNED used in a sentence.
to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: At this point in the trial, the judge adjourned the court session so the defense could access and review the test results. to defer or postpone to a later time:
adjourn something The trial has been adjourned until next week. The chairman may adjourn the meeting at any time. Definition of adjourn verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
verb. /əˈdʒərn/. [intransitive, transitive, often passive] Verb Forms. to stop a meeting or an official process, especially a trial, for a period of time The court adjourned for lunch. adjourn something The trial has been adjourned until next week. The chairman may adjourn the meeting at any time.
To adjourn is to close a session of something, like at court. People also adjourn when they go to bed. When something is adjourned, it's over. This word comes up most often in court. Lawyers and citizens don't have the power to adjourn — to call a recess in the proceedings. Only a judge can adjourn the court.
adjourn in British English. (əˈdʒɜːn ) verb. 1. (intransitive) (of a court, etc) to close at the end of a session. 2. to postpone or be postponed, esp temporarily or to another place. 3. (transitive) to put off (a problem, discussion, etc) for later consideration; defer.
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