adjournment

Etymology

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

noun

  1. 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
  2. (rhetoric) Ampliatio.

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