From Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").

• (America) IPA: /əˈd͡ʒɝn/
• (RP) IPA: /əˈdʒɜːn/

adjourn (adjourns, present participle adjourning; simple 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.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Danger and Mischief of delaying Repentance”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC ↗:

     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.

• 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: перемести́ться