adjourn
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adjourn /əˈdʒəːn/
▶verb
- 1 break off (a meeting) with the intention of resuming it later.
- 2 postpone (a resolution or sentence).
– derivatives
adjournment noun.
adjournment noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘summon someone to appear on a particular day’): from OFr. ajorner, from the phr. a jorn (nome) ‘to an (appointed) day’.
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