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adjournment

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ad⋅journ⋅ment

  [uh-jurn-muhnt]
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–noun
the act of adjourning or the state or period of being adjourned.
Origin:
1635–45; < AF adjournement, MF. See adjourn, -ment
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ad·journ   (ə-jûrn')   
v.   ad·journed, ad·journ·ing, ad·journs

v.   tr.
To suspend until a later stated time.
v.   intr.

  1. To suspend proceedings to another time or place.

  2. To move from one place to another: After the meal we adjourned to the living room.


[Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajourner : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + jour, day (from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, daily, from diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots).]
ad·journ'ment n.
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