adjournment
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, equivalent to adjourn + -ment.
Noun
[edit]adjournment (countable and uncountable, plural adjournments)
- The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
- At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
- 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, “Definitions”, in Robert’s Rules of Order[1], Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., pages 15–16:
- 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 […]
- (rhetoric) Ampliatio.
Synonyms
[edit]- (action of adjourning): deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the state of being adjourned
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See also
[edit]- adjournment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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