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Webster 1913 Edition
Adjournment
1.
The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
2.
The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adjournment
ADJOURN'MENT
, n.1.
The act of adjourning; as, in legislatures, the adjournment of one house is not an adjournment of the other.2.
The putting off till another day or time specified, or without day; that is, the closing of a session of a public or official body.3.
The time or interval during which a public body defers business; as, during an adjournment. but a suspension of business, between the forming of a house and an adjournment for refreshment, is all a recess. In Great Britain, the close of a session of parliament is called a prorogation; as the close of a parliament is a dissolution. But in Great Britain, as well as in the United States, adjournment is now used for an intermission of business, for any indefinite time; as, an adjournment of parliament for six weeks.Definition 2024
adjournment
adjournment
English
Noun
adjournment (plural adjournments)
- The state of being adjourned.
- Adjournment didn't come a minute too soon for those of us who needed the toilet.
- The action of adjourning.
- At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
- (rhetoric) Ampliatio.
Translations
the state of being adjourned
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the action of adjourning
See also
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