Adjourn

Definitions: Adjourn

Adjourn

Verb

1. Close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned".

2. Break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adjourn" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Adjourn

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Crosswords: Adjourn

But before we adjourn our secretary has a real special surprise. (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro)

We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn. ("We Will All Go Together When We Go"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

A Motion to Adjourn (1921)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Clause 4: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "adjourn": adjourn a meeting ♦ adjourn for lunch ♦ adjourn sine die ♦ adjourn to. Additional references.

Albanian

shtyj (actuate, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), shkoj gjetiu përkohësisht, pezulloj (block, call, cancel, recall, suspend). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فض (adjournment, breaking, close, scattering, unfold, unwrap), ‏نفض (kick up, knock out, shake, split, throw up), ‏أجل (carry over, continue, defer, delay, dignify, esteem, glorify, hold over, honor, honour, look up to, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, rather, refer back, regard, remit, set aside, shelve, stall, suspend, table, value, yep, yes), ‏أرجأ الجلسة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свършвам (accomplish, be through with smth., clear away, end, finish, job, put through, run short, shoot away, sink, turn off, wind up, work out), отсрочвам (continue, defer, postpone, put off), оттеглям се (back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), отивам (betake, go, proceed, render, repair, resort, sort, suit), закривам (abolish, cap, case, close down, cover, hide, intercept, liquidate, obscure, obstruct, shield, shroud, shut down, shut out), бивам закрит, преминавам (get over, get through, go by, melt, merge, overblow, overpass, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass on, passage, proceed, run, shade, surmount, traverse). (various references)

Chinese 

散 (leisurely, loosen, powdered medicine, scatter, to come loose, to scatter), 休會 , 休会 (Adjourned, Adjourning, Adjournment). (various references)

Czech

přerušit (abort, black out, break off, cut off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off), odroèit (postpone, prorogue, recess, remand, reprieve, retard), odložit (abort, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away). (various references)

Danish

udsætte (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, procrastinate). (various references)

Dutch

aanhouden (arrest, continue, delay, endure, halt, hold, hold in abeyance, keep ... burning, keep on, last, persevere, persist, postpone, procrastinate, pursue one's point, stop, to apprehend, to arrest, to seize), verschuiven (delay, displace, hold in abeyance, move, postpone, stagger), verdagen (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, procrastinate), uitstellen (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, procrastinate). (various references)

Faeroese

drála (delay, hesitate, hold in abeyance, postpone), bíða við (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone). (various references)

Farsi 

موکول بروزدیگرشدن , بوقت دیگرموکول کردن . (various references)

Finnish

lykätä (defer, postpone, push, put off, refer). (various references)

French

renvoyer, ajourner. (various references)

German

vertagen (defer, delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue), aufschieben (defer, delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, procrastinate, push back, put off, set aside, shelve, shelving, slide back, slide open, suspend, to defer, to delay, to put off, to suspend). (various references)

Greek 

αναβάλλω (call off, cancel, defer, delay, hold over, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put off, respite, set back, stall, stay), διακόπτω (abort, break in, break off, cease, chip in, cut in, cut off, disconnect, discontinue, intercept, intermit, interrupt, pause, sever, snub, suspend, to shut off). (various references)

Hungarian

halogat (be on the back burner, delay, hold in abeyance, hold over, play for time, postpone, procrastinate, stall, to defer, to procrastinate, to put off, to put over, to stall), halaszt (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, put off, to adjourn, to hold over, to intermit, to protract), elodáz (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone), elnapol (hang up, prorogue, put off, risen, rose, to adjourn, to hold over, to put off, to rise), elhalaszt (defer, delay, leave over, postpone, put off, to adjourn, to defer, to delay, to hold over, to leave over, to put off, to put over, to remit, to respite, to side-track, to stay), berekeszt (to adjourn, to gag). (various references)

Indonesian

menunda-nunda, menunda (cancel, defer, delay, postpone), menggantungkan (hang, suspend). (various references)

Italian

aggiornare (bring up to date, keep oneself up-to-date, to bring up to date, to currently adjust, to update, update). (various references)

Manx

scuirr (abort, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop), cur ry-lhiattee (appropriation, head off, lay by, set apart), arraghey (adjournment, change, change course, digress, digression, dislodge, dislodgement, displacement, manoeuvre, motion, move, mutation, removal, remove, shift, trim). (various references)

Norwegian

utsette (delay, expose). (various references)

Papiamen

aplasá (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone). (various references)

Pig Latin

adjournay

Polish

przesuwać, odkładać. (various references)

Portuguese

adiar (defer, delay, drive, hold over, postpone, put off, respite, shelve, stay, suspend, wait, waive), suspender (cancel, dangle, discontinue, hang, inhibit, intermittence, interrupt, lever, lift, paralyse, paralyze, put up, raise, remit, sling, suspend, swing), ir para outro lugar, interromper (abort, cut off, discontinue, intermit, interpose, interrupt, paralyse, paralyze, rupture, shut off, stop, take up, throw out, to arrest, violate). (various references)

Romanian

amâna (continue, dally, delay, drive, hang up, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, put off, refer, reprieve, shunt, stay), suspenda (hang, stop, suspend), se suspenda (defer), se retrage (climb, crane, cry off, draw back, draw off, efface, fall back, give way, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retract, retreat, shrink, shrink from, stand back, step aside, withdraw), se deplasa (be on the move, displace, move away, remove, travel), se amâna (defer), întrerupe (break, break in, break off an engagement, call off, catch, check, cut, discontinue, drop, intermit, interrupt, shut off, stop, suspend, switch off), întîrzia (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone). (various references)

Russian 

отсрочивать (defer, prorogue), объявлять перерыв, делать перерыв. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

promeniti (change, reverse, revise, shift, transform, transmogrify, turn around), prekinuti (abort, break off, cease, cut, cut off, cut short, disconnect, disrupt, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture, sever), odložiti (carry over, defer, delay, lay aside, postpone, put off, remit, reprieve, reserve, respite, retard, stay, table), odgoditi (defer, delay, postpone). (various references)

Spanish

aplazar (defer, delay, hold over, postpone, procrastinate, put back, put off, put over, reserve, respite, sleep over, table, wait). (various references)

Swedish

ajournera (prorogue). (various references)

Turkish

sonraya bırakmak (postpone, put off, put on one side, reserve, sleep on, stand over), son vermek (call a halt, call off, cease, chuck, close, cut off, discontinue, end, end off, fetch up, finish, make an end of, put a stop to, put an end to, raise, shut down on, shut down upon, sign off, stash, stop, terminate, top off, wind up, wipe up, wrap up), geciktirmek (delay, hold up, impede, keep back, postpone, procrastinate, put back, retard, set back, sidetrack, stall, stall off, stave off), geçmek (abate, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), ertelemek (carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend, table, waive), dağılmak (be scattered, clear, clear away, come apart, crack up, decay, decompose, diffuse, disband, disintegrate, disperse, disrupt, dissolve, fall, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, scatter, separate, splinter, spread, straggle). (various references)

Ukranian 

відстрочувати (defer, delay, lay over, postpone, prolong, prolongate, prorogue, put off), відкладати (defer, delay, deposit, hold over, lay aside, lay past, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put aside, put over, respite, set apart, set aside, set by, stand over, suspend, wait), оголушувати перерву, припиняти (abate, cease, desist, discontinue, end, give over, leave off, nip, stash, stop, surcease), перенести засідання. (various references)

Welsh

oedi (defer, delay, postpone), gohirio (defer, postpone). (various references)

ampliatum, ampliavit, diurnus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adjourn": adjourned, adjourning, adjournment, adjournments, adjourns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adjourn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abdnouri, adjaurn, adjorn, adjou, adjoun, adjourh, adjourne, adjurn, adour, adourn, ajourn, Audouin, Radbourne, Rajouri, Sadourny. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: around, jordan.

-2 letters: adorn, doura, radon, round.

-3 letters: darn, dona, dour, dura, durn, duro, judo, jura, nard, nurd, orad, rand, road, roan, undo.

-4 letters: ado, and, don, dor, dun, duo, jar, jun, nod, nor, oar, ora, oud, our, rad, raj, ran, rod, run, udo, urd, urn.

-5 letters: ad, an, ar, do, jo, na, no, nu, od, on, or, un.

+1 letter: adjourns.

+2 letters: adjourned.

+3 letters: adjourning, adjuration, jaguarondi.

+4 letters: adjournment, adjurations, jaguarondis, journalized.

+5 letters: adjournments.

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