adjournment

At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.

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 […]

The so-called correctional officers, guards, tried to force me to go to court; but knowing it would be another adjournment, I refused.

The prosecution asked for another adjournment when the seven failed to show up in court for the scheduled hearings, but the judges denied the request.