| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To postpone, defer, procrastinate, shelve or temporize.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To suspend or hang. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To discontinue, interrupt or abort. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To stop, stay, deter, thwart or obstruct. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To catch, grapple, seize, apprehend or capture. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To attach, fasten, connect or secure. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To dangle or loll.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb adjourn.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (adjourn) | 1. Close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned".[Wordnet]. 2. Break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch".[Wordnet]. 3. To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.[Websters]. 4. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: adjourning, adjourned, adjourns, adjourner, adjourners, adjourningly and adjournedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ADJOURNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ADJOURNING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Deferring; suspending for a time; closing a session.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of adjourn. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: adjourn
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Adjourn for more than 3 days | Politics | Under the Constitution, neither chamber may adjourn for more than three days without the approval of the other. Such approval is obtained in a concurrent resolution approved by both chambers. (references) | |
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| Adjourn for more than three days | 2 | Adjourn for more than three days | 2 | |
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