adjourn

Verb

Meaning

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.

To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

withdraw retire dissolve suspend postpone recess defer prorogue close rest hold table rise stop stay
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Antonyms

institute but open start continue cuddle
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Hypernyms

end close stop finish cease fold

Hyponyms

prorogue

Phrases with the word

to adjourn adjourn to

Derivatives

adjourned adjourning

Anagrams

Jourdan

Examples

A motion to adjourn is always in order. Robert A. Heinlein

Liberalism, with its contradictions and compromises, existed for Donoso Cortés only in that short interim period in which it was possible to answer the question "Christ or Barabbas?” with a proposal to adjourn or appoint a commission of investigation. Carl Schmitt

The court adjourned Source: Internet

We adjourned for lunch Source: Internet

The men retired to the library Source: Internet

According to Cicero, the auctoritas of ius augurum included the right to adjourn and overturn the process of law: consular election could be - and was - rendered invalid by inaugural error. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

adjointable adjointly adjointness adjourn to adjournable adjournal