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Adjourn

Adjourn Meaning & Definition
Adjourn Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Adjourn?

[v] close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
[v] break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Adjourn: break up | recess | retire | withdraw

Related Terms | Find terms related to Adjourn: break up | close | continue | curb | defer | delay | disband | discontinue | disperse | dissolve | drag out | extend | hang fire | hang up | hold back | hold off | hold over | hold up | lay aside | lay by | lay over | pigeonhole | postpone | prolong | prorogate | prorogue | protract | push aside | put aside | put off | put on ice | recess | reserve | restrain | rise | set aside | set by | shelve | shift off | sleep on | stand over | stave off | stay | stretch out | suspend | table | take a recess | terminate | waive

See Also | assemble | cease | close | close down | end | finish | fold | foregather | forgather | gather | meet | prorogue | shut down | stop | terminate

Adjourn In Webster's Dictionary

\Ad*journ\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adjourned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adjourning}.] [OE. ajornen, OF. ajoiner, ajurner, F. ajourner; OF. a (L. ad) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. Cf. {Journal}, {Journey}.] To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. --Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. --Shak. Syn: To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend. Usage: To {Adjourn}, {Prorogue}, {Dissolve}. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted.
\Ad*journ"\, v. i. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

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