adjournment
nounEtymology From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, from ajourner (“to postpone”) + -ment. Equivalent to adjourn + -ment. Doublet of aggiornamento.
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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 […]1876, Henry Martyn Robert, “Definitions”, in Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., pages 15–16:
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Rhetoric Ampliatio.
- Synonyms
- deferral, procrastination
- Derived terms
- adjournment sine die, nonadjournment, readjournment