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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.

  • Adjourn (v. i.)

    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.

  • adjourn (verb, transitive ver)

    to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time

  • adjourn (verb, transitive ver)

    to suspend a session indefinitely or to another time or place

  • adjourn (verb, transitive ver)

    to move to another place

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