Adjourn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To suspend until a later stated time.
  • verb-intransitive. To suspend proceedings to another time or place.
  • verb-intransitive. To move from one place to another: After the meal we adjourned to the living room.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To postpone.
  • v. Temporarily ending an event with intentions to complete it at another time or place.
  • v. Of an event: To end or suspend
  • v. To move from one place to another.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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
  • verb-intransitive. 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
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put off or defer, properly to another day, but also till a later period indefinitely.
  • Specifically To suspend the meeting of, as a public or private body, to a future day or to another place; also, defer or postpone to a future meeting of the same body: as, the court adjourned the consideration of the question.
  • To suspend a sitting or transaction till another day, or transfer it to another place: usually said of legislatures, courts, or other formally organized bodies: as, the legislature adjourned at four o'clock; the meeting adjourned to the town hall.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. break from a meeting or gathering
  • v. close at the end of a session
  • Verb Form
    adjourned    adjourning    adjourns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stop    finish    terminate    cease    end   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    suspend    defer    postpone    delay    put off    rise   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bern    Berne    Fern    Hearn    Herne    Kern    Laverne    Stern    Sterne    Verne   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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