• (British) IPA: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈɹəʊɡ/
• (America) IPA: /pɹoʊˈɹoʊɡ/

prorogue (prorogues, present participle proroguing; past and past participle prorogued)

1. (transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session. [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive, now rare) To defer. [from 15th c.]
3. (obsolete) To prolong or extend. [15th-18th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv:

     Mirth […] prorogues life, whets the wit, makes the body young, lively, and fit for any manner of employment.

• (to defer) defer, postpone
• (to prolong) extend, prolong, protract

• French: proroger
• German: vertagen
• Italian: prorogare
• Spanish: prorrogar

• German: verschieben, aufschieben

• French: proroger
• German: verlängern
• Portuguese: prorrogar
• Spanish: prorrogar