Adjourn
[ə'dʒɜːn] or [ə'dʒɝn]
Definition
(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'.
Edited by Ahmed--From WordNet
Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Postpone, defer, delay, procrastinate, put off.[2]. Prorogue.
Typist: Rudy
Definition
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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Examples
- So it was an unusually lively meeting, and did not adjourn till a late hour, when it broke up with three shrill cheers for the new member. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I think we may adjourn,' said Lieutenant Tappleton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Often at night, in the small hours, all would adjourn for refreshments to a famous resort nearby, to discuss the events of to-day and to-morrow, full of incident and excitement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As I sat solitary, purposing to adjourn to the garden and leave the coast clear, but too listless to fulfil my own intent, I heard the workmen coming. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The dance had begun, and we adjourned to the temple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Judges having to take part in a public demonstration out of doors, the Tribunal adjourned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- After dinner, we immediately adjourned to the schoolroom: lessons recommenced, and were continued till five o'clock. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At intervals during the adjourned investigation, he suggested questions which the Coroner put, but which led to no results. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But next day I learned that instead of there being a vote the convention had adjourned without action until the day after. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Therefore we three adjourned to the apprentices together, and I made one in the dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The company was raised and the officers and non-commissioned officers elected before the meeting adjourned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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