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adjourn

UK/əˈdʒɜːn//əˈd͡ʒɝn/

adjourn verb: to postpone.

Verb

adjourn (third-person singular simple present adjourns, present participle adjourning, simple past and past participle adjourned)

  1. (transitive) To postpone.
    • The trial was adjourned for a week.
  2. (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
    • It is a common practice […]to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn]...
  3. (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
    • The court will adjourn for lunch.
    • The Form of this motion is, “When this assembly adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time.”1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 10, pp. 25-26
  4. (formal, intransitive, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.
    • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

adjourn meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

adjourn in Tamil

ஒத்தி வை, ஒத்திவை, தள்ளி வை, ஒத்திப்போடு, தள்ளிவை

adjourn in Urdu

ملتوی کرنا

adjourn in Bengali

সভা, আদালত সাময়িকভাবে স্থগিত করা

adjourn in Malayalam

മറ്റൊരു ദിവസത്തേക്കു നീട്ടിവയ്ക്കുക, തത്കാലം നിറുത്തുക, പ്രവർത്തനത്തിൽ നിന്ന് തത്കാലം വിരമിക്കുക
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adjourn in Kannada
ಮುಂದೂಡು, ಮುಂದು ಹಾಕು
adjourn in Thai
ย้าย yáai

Examples of adjourn in a sentence

  • I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
  • The meeting was adjourned to a later date.
  • The meeting was adjourned without day.

All 13 example sentences with adjourn

Forms of adjourn

third-person singular presentadjourns
present participleadjourning
past participleadjourned
pastadjourned

Past tense of adjourn: adjourned

Origin of adjourn

From Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").

Words formed from adjourn

Questions about adjourn

What does adjourn mean?
Adjourn means to postpone.
What is adjourn in Tamil?
Adjourn in Tamil is ஒத்தி வை, ஒத்திவை, தள்ளி வை. See Adjourn meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adjourn?
Adjourn is a verb.
How do you pronounce adjourn?
Adjourn is pronounced /əˈd͡ʒɝn/ (US).
What is the past tense of adjourn?
The past tense of adjourn is adjourned.

Words near adjourn in the dictionary

  1. adjointable
  2. adjointly
  3. adjointness
  4. adjointnesses
  5. adjoints
  6. adjourn
  7. adjournable
  8. adjournal
  9. adjournals
  10. adjourned
  11. adjourner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adjourn (page history and authors); adjourn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adjourn (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adjourn (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adjourn (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adjourn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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