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Adjournment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning. countable, uncountable

    "At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired."

  2. 2
    the termination of a meeting wordnet
  3. 3
    Ampliatio. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
  4. 4
    the act of postponing to another time or place wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, equivalent to adjourn + -ment.

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