adjournment
English
Etymology
From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, equivalent to adjourn + -ment.
Noun
adjournment (countable and uncountable, plural adjournments)
- The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
- At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
- 1876, Robert, Henry Martyn, “Definitions”, in Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., pages 15-16:
- A “meeting” of an assembly is terminated by a temporary adjournment; a “session” of an assembly ends with an adjournment without day, and may consist of many meetings […]
- (rhetoric) Ampliatio.
Synonyms
- (action of adjourning): deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment
Derived terms
- adjournment sine die
Translations
the state of being adjourned
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See also
adjournment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia