adjourn
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verb (used with object)
1.
to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
2.
to defer or postpone to a later time: They adjourned the meeting until the following Monday.
3.
to defer or postpone (a matter) to a future meeting of the same body.
4.
to defer or postpone (a matter) to some future time, either specified or not specified.
verb (used without object)
5.
to postpone, suspend, or transfer proceedings.
6.
to go to another place: to adjourn to the parlor.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) (of a court, etc) to close at the end of a session |
| 2. | to postpone or be postponed, esp temporarily or to another place |
| 3. | (tr) to put off (a problem, discussion, etc) for later consideration; defer |
| 4. | informal (intr) |
| a. to move elsewhere: let's adjourn to the kitchen | |
| b. to stop work | |
| [C14: from Old French ajourner to defer to an arranged day, from a- to + jour day, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus daily, from diēs day] | |
| ad'journment | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
adjourn
early 14c., from O.Fr. ajourner, from the phrase à jorn "to a stated day" (à "to" + journ "day," from L. diurnus "daily;" see diurnal). The sense is to set a date for a re-meeting. Meaning "to go in a body to another place" (1640s) is colloquial.
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Example sentences
Lawmakers, especially in the House, are also eager to adjourn and return home for the autumn campaign season.
Congress is scheduled to adjourn on Friday but may run a few days late.
Parliament is expected to adjourn for the week or deal only with nonpartisan matters.
Reflexively, he was apt to adjourn meetings when this happened.
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