adjournment (noun)

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• adjournment — adjourn ad‧journ [əˈdʒɜːn ǁ ɜːrn] verb [intransitive, transitive] if a meeting or law court adjourns, or if the person in charge adjourns it, it finishes or stops, either for a short time, or until the next time it meets: • The chairman has the… …   Financial and business terms

• adjournment — adjourn ► VERB 1) break off (a meeting) with the intention of resuming it later. 2) postpone (a resolution or sentence). DERIVATIVES adjournment noun. ORIGIN Old French ajorner, from a jorn nome to an appointed day …   English terms dictionary

• adjournment — I noun adjournal, break, continuation, deferment, dilatio, discontinuation, extension, hold over, intermission, interruption, moratorium, postponement, prolongation, prorogation, protraction, recess, reservation, respite, stay, suspension,… …   Law dictionary

• adjournment — noun a) The state of being adjourned. Adjournment didnt come a minute too soon for those of us who needed the toilet. b) The action of adjourning. At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired …   Wiktionary

• adjournment debate — noun A brief parliamentary debate, immediately before the adjournment of the House, allowing members to raise issues which would otherwise not be discussed • • • Main Entry: ↑adjourn …   Useful english dictionary

• adjournment — noun if not now signed into law, the legislation will die with the adjournment of this Congress Syn: suspension, discontinuation, interruption, postponement, deferment, deferral, stay, prorogation; break, pause, recess …   Thesaurus of popular words

• adjournment — noun Date: 1607 1. the act of adjourning 2. the state or interval of being adjourned …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adjournment of debate — noun Parliamentary Procedure the postponement of parliamentary debate on a bill for a fixed time, to allow members to study it …  

• adjournment — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Recess] Syn. intermission, pause, break; see recess 1 . 2. [Delay] Syn. postponement, putting off, deferment; see delay 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. recess, rest, pause, break, delay, intermission, suspension,… …   English dictionary for students

• adjournment — /əˈdʒɜnmənt/ (say uh jernmuhnt) noun 1. the act of adjourning. 2. a state or period of being adjourned …  

• adjournment debate — /əˈdʒɜnmənt dəbeɪt/ (say uh jernmuhnt duhbayt) noun a debate at the end of a parliamentary sitting day, following the motion to adjourn the house, in which members may speak on topics of their choice …