adjourn
verbUS /əˈd͡ʒɝn/ · UK /əˈdʒɜːn/
Etymology From Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").
1
To postpone.
- The trial was adjourned for a week.
2
To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
- It is a common practice […]to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
3
To end or suspend an event.
- The court will adjourn for lunch.
- The Form of this motion is, “When this assembly adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time.”1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 10, pp. 25-26:
1 more example
- When it's time for the fallout / And Saint Peter calls us all out / We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:
- After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.
- Derived terms
- adjournable, adjournal, adjourner, adjournment, nonadjournment, readjourn, readjournment