adjournment

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Other forms: adjournments

An adjournment is the breaking off of a meeting until later. Move an adjournment, a short adjournment, until the adjournment.

It is a pause rather than an ending, which is what separates it from closing a meeting. In the Commons an adjournment debate is the half-hour at the end of the day, and it is where backbenchers raise local matters.

Definitions of adjournment

1nounadjournmentThe breaking off of a meeting until later.C1
“The judge called an adjournment until Monday so the lawyers could study the new evidence.”

adjournment is a break.

Where it comes from

Old French ajourner means to put off to another day, from jour, a day.

Old French
ajornement
Middle English
ajournement
English, today
adjournment

Built from

ajourner · French — to postpone

From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, from ajourner (“to postpone”) + -ment. Equivalent to adjourn + ment. a doublet of aggiornamento.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

adjournment in the wild

In parliamentary procedure, an adjournment ends a meeting.
Adjournment
In a sine die adjournment of this type, the hearing stands open indefinitely, and could theoretically be resumed if the situation changed.
Adjournment sine die
In common law jurisdictions, remand refers to the adjournment (continuance) of criminal proceedings, when the accused is either remanded in custody or on bail.
Remand (court procedure)
The Court held that the recess of a single chamber under Article I, Section 5, is not an adjournment.
Wright v. United States
United States concerns situations where a single chamber of Congress has entered recess, as opposed to the adjournment of the full Congress.
Wright v. United States

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Related words

adjourn

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