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adjournment

noun

Etymology

From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, equivalent to adjourn + -ment.

  1. derived from ajornement
  2. inherited from ajournement

Definitions

  1. 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 […]

  2. Ampliatio.

The neighborhood

Derived

adjournment sine die, nonadjournment, readjournment

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA