Look up: adjourn

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   adjourn
   [Verb] To stop a meeting or a trial for a time; to postpone.
   Example: The trial was adjourned until the next day.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary
   
   
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   adjourn
   [v] - break from a meeting or gathering 2. [v] - close at the end of a session
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   Adjourn
   Ad·journ transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Adjourned ; present participle & verbal noun Adjourning ] [ Middle English ajornen , Old French ajoiner , ajurner , French ajourner ; Old French a (L. ad ) + jor , jur , jorn , French jour , day, from Lati ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/29
   
   
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   Adjourn
   Ad·journ' intransitive verb 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.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/29
   
   
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   adjourn
   withdraw verb break from a meeting or gathering; `We adjourned for lunch`; `The men retired to the library`
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   adjourn
   recess verb close at the end of a session; `The court adjourned`
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   Adjourn
   • (v. t.) 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. • (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usual...
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   adjourn
   adjourn (uh JURN) 1. To put off or suspend until a future time; recess, interrupt, dissolve: 'The meeting was adjourned until next week.' 2. Move, depart for: 'Having finished dinner, they adjourned to the living room.' Adjourn comes from Old French ajorner, 'to set a day for the reopening of a meeting', from the phrase à jorn nommé, 'to ...
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