Definition of adjourn Adjourn

/ʌʤɚˈn/ - [ujern] - ad•journ

We found 13 definitions of adjourn from 8 different sources.

What does adjourn mean?

Verb adjourns, adjourning, adjourned
adjourn - break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"
		withdraw, retire
		close down, shut down, close up, fold, close refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"
		prorogue adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body
adjourn - close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
		recess, break up
		cease, end, terminate, finish, stop bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

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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
ad-jurn′, v.t. to put off to another day: to postpone: to discontinue a meeting in order to reconstitute it at another time or place.—v.i. to suspend proceedings and disperse for any time specified, or sine die, without such time being specified.—n. Adjourn′ment, the act of adjourning: the interval it causes.—(obs.) Adjourn′al. [O. Fr. ajorner—Low L. adiurnāre—L. ad, to, Low L. jurnus, L. diurnus, daily. See Journal.]

adjourn
To put off till another day. Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays excepted, until sentence is passed.

adjourn
To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another; said of military courts. Adjournment without day (sine die), indefinite postponement.