Adjourn

[ə'dʒɜːn] or [ə'dʒɝn]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) close at the end of a session; 'The court adjourned'.

(verb.) break from a meeting or gathering; 'We adjourned for lunch'; 'The men retired to the library'.

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解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(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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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Postpone, defer, delay, procrastinate, put off.[2]. Prorogue.

手打:鲁迪

解釋/意思:

v.t. to put off to another day: to postpone: to discontinue a meeting in order to reconstitute it at another time or place.—v.i. to suspend proceedings and disperse for any time specified or sine die without such time being specified.—n. Adjourn′ment the act of adjourning: the interval it causes.—(obs.) Adjourn′al.

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