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adjourning

adjourning is the present participle and gerund of adjourn.

Meaning of adjourn

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.
  4. (formal, intransitive, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.
    • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

Questions about adjourning

What is adjourning the present participle and gerund of?
Adjourning is the present participle and gerund of adjourn.

Words near adjourning in the dictionary

  1. adjournals
  2. adjourned
  3. adjourner
  4. adjourners
  5. adjourneth
  6. adjourning
  7. adjournment
  8. adjournment sine die
  9. adjournments
  10. adjournments sine die
  11. adjourns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adjourning (page history and authors); adjourn (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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