adjournment

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Noun

adjournment

1. The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.

   At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.

2. (rhetoric) Ampliatio.

Synonyms

• (action of adjourning) deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment

Translations

• French: ajournement, suspension
• German: Vertagung (postponement), Verschiebung
• Russian: отсро́чка
• Spanish: suspensión

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