adjourn

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /əˈdʒɝn/
• (RP) IPA: /əˈdʒɜːn/

Verb

adjourn (adjourns, present participle adjourning; past and past participle adjourned)

1. (transitive) To postpone.

   The trial was adjourned for a week.

2. (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.

   • It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.

3. (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.

   The court will adjourn for lunch.

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 10, pp. 25-26,

     The Form of this motion is, “When this assembly adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time.”

4. (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.

   After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

Translations

• French: ajourner
• German: unterbrechen (short period of time), vertagen (long period of time)
• Russian: отложи́ть
• Spanish: suspender, posponer, diferir

Translations

• French: ajourner
• German: aufschieben
• Russian: де́лать
• Spanish: aplazar, posponer

Translations

• French: ajourner
• German: schließen, aufheben
• Russian: in different meanings закры́ть
• Spanish: suspender

Translations

• French: mouvoir
• German: begeben, zurückziehen (participants); verlegen (venue)
• Russian: перемести́ть

Related terms

• adjournment

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