Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of postponing or deferring.
  • noun The act of discontinuing a meeting of a public or private body or the transaction of any business until a fixed date or indefinitely. The period during which a public body adjourns its sittings: as, during an adjournment of six weeks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
  • noun The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being adjourned.
  • noun The action of adjourning.
  • noun rhetoric Ampliatio.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of postponing to another time or place
  • noun the termination of a meeting

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Examples

  • Admittedly, these clauses discuss adjournments, but the term adjournment is not coextensive with recess.

    Colloquy : Northwestern University Law Review 2009

  • According to the Senate historian, this week's adjournment is the earliest pre-election exit since 1960.

    Lawmakers Head for Exits Janet Hook 2010

  • According to the Office of the House Parliamentarian, the House is in adjournment until November 15.

    Robert J. Spitzer: President Obama: Veto Yes; Pocket Veto, No! Robert J. Spitzer 2010

  • Even if prosecutors offer defendants what is known as an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal - a deal in which the charges are eventually dismissed if the person goes a certain period of time without being rearrested - Mr. Stolar said that "a substantial number of people" would decline the deal and "insist on going to trial and establishing their innocence."

    NYT > Home Page By MATT FLEGENHEIMER 2011

  • In a statement, the funds called the adjournment a "betrayal of shareholder democracy."

    Chaos Surrounds Atos 2008

  • Democrats charged at once that the adjournment was a skulking subterfuge not only to avoid an open confession of failure, but to evade submitting negro suffrage to a vote in November.

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • When the judge late last month called an adjournment until Tuesday it was widely seen as a strategic pause to give Yanukovich and his advisers time to consider their options in the face of the Western criticism.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • The main Hindu nationalist opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP, said it will push for a vote, known as an "adjournment motion", over the new retail regulations.

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  • Sedita was referring to what's called an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal deal Barnaby reached in July to have five misdemeanor charges dropped in connection to a domestic dispute with his estranged wife.

    NYDN Rss 2011

  • The new meeting chairman called the adjournment a "recess," meaning that the postponement did not require the shareholders in attendance to consent.

    NYT > Home Page By STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF 2012

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