adjournment
Collocations
4ADJ.
temporary
VERB + ADJOURNMENT
asked, ends
ADJOURNMENT + NOUN
day, everyone, session
PREP.
with, without
Definitions
noun
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
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 […]
Ampliatio.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the termination of a meeting
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
WiktionaryA “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 […]
WiktionaryThe so-called correctional officers, guards, tried to force me to go to court; but knowing it would be another adjournment, I refused.
Tatoeba · #5891084The prosecution asked for another adjournment when the seven failed to show up in court for the scheduled hearings, but the judges denied the request.
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