adjourn
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of adjourn
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To postpone.
“The trial was adjourned for a week.”
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verb
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(transitive)To postpone.
“The trial was adjourned for a week.”
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(transitive)To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
“It is a common practice […]to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.”
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(intransitive)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.””
“When it's time for the fallout / And Saint Peter calls us all out / We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn”
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(formal, intransitive, uncommon)To move as a group from one place to another.
“After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").
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