adjournment
adjournment noun: the state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
Noun
adjournment (countable and uncountable, plural adjournments)
- The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
- At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
- A “meeting” of an assembly is terminated by a temporary adjournment; a “session” of an assembly ends with an adjournment without day, and may consist of many meetings […]1876, Henry Martyn Robert, “Definitions”, in Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., pages 15–16
- Synonyms:
- deferral
- Ampliatio.
adjournment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
adjournment in Hindi
- the state of being adjourned
- स्थगन sthagan
adjournment in Tamil
- ஒத்திப்போடு, ஒத்திவைப்பு, தள்ளி வைப்பு, தள்ளிப்போடு, வாய்தா
adjournment in Marathi
- adjournment
- भंग bhaṅga
adjournment in Urdu
- adjournment
- تعطیل ta'tīl
More languagesFewer languages
- adjournment in Malayalam
- മാറ്റിവയ്ക്കൽ, നിർത്തൽ, അവധിവയ്ക്കൽ, നീട്ടിവയ്ക്കൽ
- adjournment in Kannada
- ನಿಲುವಳಿ, ಮುಂದುವರಿಕೆ, ಮುಂದೂಡಿಕೆ
- adjournment in Malay
- penangguhan
- adjournment in Indonesian
- penangguhan
Synonyms of adjournment
Forms of adjournment
| plural | adjournments |
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Origin of adjournment
From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, from ajourner (“to postpone”) + -ment. Equivalent to adjourn + -ment. Doublet of aggiornamento.
Words formed from adjournment
Questions about adjournment
- What does adjournment mean?
- Adjournment means the state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
- What is adjournment in Hindi?
- Adjournment in Hindi is स्थगन (sthagan). See Adjournment meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adjournment?
- Adjournment is a noun.
- What is the plural of adjournment?
- The plural of adjournment is adjournments.
Words near adjournment in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: adjournment (page history and authors); adjournment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); भंग (Marathi) (page history and authors); تعطیل (Urdu) (page history and authors); adjournment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); adjournment (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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