Pronunciation Verb
adjourn (adjourns, present participle adjourning; past and past participle adjourned)
- (transitive) To postpone.
- The trial was adjourned for a week.
- (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.
- (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.”
- (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.
- After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.
- French: ajourner
- German: unterbrechen (short period of time), vertagen (long period of time)
- Russian: отложи́ть
- Spanish: suspender, posponer, diferir
- French: ajourner
- German: aufschieben
- Russian: де́лать
- Spanish: aplazar, posponer
- French: ajourner
- German: schließen, aufheben
- Russian: in different meanings закры́ть
- Spanish: suspender
- French: mouvoir
- German: begeben, zurückziehen (participants); verlegen (venue)
- Russian: перемести́ть
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