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- Dictionaryadjournment/əˈdʒəːnm(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. an act or period of adjourning or being adjourned: "she sought an adjournment of the trial"
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the temporary ending of a meeting or trial, or the period of time during which it is temporarily ended: This trial has a history of delays and repeated adjournments. The judge granted the request for an adjournment. The Senate passed the bill, but the House didn't vote on it before adjournment.
In law, to adjourn means to suspend proceedings to another time or place, or to end them. [1] Parliamentary procedure. In deliberative assemblies, an adjournment ends a meeting. Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), if no time or method has been fixed to reconvene the assembly, the adjournment has the effect of dissolving the body.
1. : the act of adjourning. adjournment of a meeting. 2. : the state or interval of being adjourned. a brief adjournment. Examples of adjournment in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web The defendant's attorney requested an adjournment in the case.
the temporary ending of a meeting or trial, or the period of time during which it is temporarily ended: This trial has a history of delays and repeated adjournments. The judge granted the request for an adjournment. The Senate passed the bill, but the House didn't vote on it before adjournment.
Adjournment definition: the act of adjourning or the state or period of being adjourned. . See examples of ADJOURNMENT used in a sentence.
When you end something or postpone it to a later time, that's an adjournment. When an initially friendly meeting becomes an angry shouting match, it might be time for an adjournment. Members at a company board meeting might request an adjournment for lunch, agreeing to reconvene in an hour.
1. To suspend proceedings to another time or place. 2. To move to a new location, especially to a less formal setting: After the meal, we adjourned to the living room.
An adjournment is a temporary stopping of a trial, enquiry, or other meeting. The court ordered a four month adjournment. Synonyms: postponement , delay , suspension , putting off More Synonyms of adjournment
noun. /əˈdʒɜːnmənt/ /əˈdʒɜːrnmənt/ [countable, uncountable] (formal) a time when a meeting or an official process, especially a trial, is stopped for a period of time; the fact of stopping a meeting or an official process in this way. The judge granted us a short adjournment. Topics Working life c2. Join us.
Adjournment definition: . See examples of ADJOURNMENT used in a sentence.
