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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjourn
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a court adjourns a case/trial etc (=stops dealing with it for a period of time)
▪ The court adjourned the trial until June 21st.
a trial is adjourned (=it is officially stopped for several days, weeks, or months)
▪ The trial was adjourned until November.
adjourn a case (=stop it for a short time)
▪ The case was adjourned until next month for further reports.
adjourn a meeting (=make it stop for a period of time)
▪ This meeting is adjourned until tomorrow.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
application
▪ On 26 February 1992 Hobhouse J. adjourned the application and invited the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae.
case
▪ They adjourned the case and directed that it be heard before a differently constituted bench of three justices.
▪ This afternoon the judge adjourned the case until tomorrow morning.
▪ On their clerk's advice the justices rejected the submission but adjourned the case.
▪ Northallerton magistrates adjourned the case for reports.
▪ Hull Crown Court adjourned the case for reports.
▪ Magistrates adjourned the case until June 9 and Swalwell was granted conditional bail.
▪ Sheriff Laura Duncan called for background reports and adjourned the case for three weeks.
▪ Magistrates adjourned the case against Alfred Dines after telling him they were thinking of imposing a three month jail term.
court
▪ The event that would eclipse it began only after Kenneff left the witness stand, and court adjourned for lunch.
▪ He stood up and, as the bailiff chanted that the court was adjourned, disappeared into his chambers.
▪ Today's court hearing was adjourned while the couple get legal help to fight their case.
▪ Dozens of court cases had been adjourned pending the judgment.
▪ The hearing at Coleford magistrates court was adjourned for three weeks.
▪ The court adjourned the trial until June 21, ordering police to find videos of the conference.
▪ She spoke to a woman police officer outside the Old Bailey after the court had adjourned on Tuesday evening.
hearing
▪ Magistrates adjourned the hearing until later today after a solicitor asked for more time to consult his clients.
▪ Cleveland deputy coroner Ronald Smith said as there was a possibility of industrial disease he was adjourning the hearing pending further inquiries.
▪ Magistrates adjourned the hearing until May 14.
▪ Coroner, Lester Madrell adjourned the hearing for police to continue their investigations.
▪ The magistrates adjourned the hearing until October 8, when committal proceedings are likely to take place.
▪ Judge David Selwood adjourned the hearings to October 7 for pre-sentence reports.
▪ The Cleveland coroner adjourned the hearing pending further inquiries.
house
▪ A further matter concerning alleged damage to five trees and lawns at the house was adjourned.
inquest
▪ Coroner Nicholas Gardiner opened and adjourned the inquest for two weeks so that funerals can be held.
▪ Cleveland deputy coroner Ronald Smith adjourned the inquest.
▪ The coroner adjourned the inquest after he was told that Mrs Probyn's husband Jonathan had been charged with her murder.
▪ Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield adjourned the inquest pending further inquiries.
▪ Mr Turnbull adjourned the inquest, which was not attended by relatives of the victims, to a date to be fixed.
▪ Inquest adjourned: An inquest into the death of a toddler has been adjourned.
meeting
▪ The King was greatly displeased by this suggestion and promptly adjourned the meeting.
▪ The Mayor was obliged to adjourn the meeting pending discussion by the Corporation.
▪ Ivashko adjourned the meeting, and the politburo went into emergency session, emerging to announce its unanimous backing for Gorbachev.
report
▪ The case was adjourned for reports.
▪ The case was adjourned for reports Hens raid: Thieves raided a hen house in Ripon.
▪ Sentence had been adjourned until yesterday for reports.
▪ Sentencing was adjourned while psychiatric reports are prepared.
▪ Northallerton magistrates adjourned the case for reports.
▪ Hull Crown Court adjourned the case for reports.
▪ The case has been adjourned for reports to be prepared.
trial
▪ The case was adjourned for trial.
▪ They must adjourn the matter for trial by a bench of three justices.
▪ After he had been taken to hospital by ambulance the judge, Lord Morison, adjourned the trial until Monday.
▪ The court adjourned the trial until June 21, ordering police to find videos of the conference.
▪ The judge then adjourned the trial until March 6, to allow police time to trace Mekgwe.
▪ Sheriff Andrew Bell adjourned the trial, which is expected to last for two to three weeks, until tomorrow.
week
▪ Mr Justice Latham adjourned sentence until Friday week.
▪ It was unclear whether a meeting would be scheduled before Congress adjourns next week.
▪ The case was adjourned for two weeks until April 6.
▪ An inquest was opened and adjourned last week.
▪ They appeared in court at Leominster in Herefordshire this morning when the case was adjourned for a week.
▪ His case was adjourned for three weeks.
▪ The hearing at Coleford magistrates court was adjourned for three weeks.
▪ The case was adjourned for a week.
■ VERB
open
▪ Coroner Nicholas Gardiner opened and adjourned the inquest for two weeks so that funerals can be held.
▪ An inquest into his death was opened and adjourned yesterday.
▪ An inquest was opened and adjourned last week.
▪ Inquest opened: An inquest into the death of 61-year-old James Dawson has been opened and adjourned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If there are no more questions, the committee will adjourn until tomorrow morning.
▪ The chairman has the power to adjourn the meeting at any time.
▪ The trial was adjourned for two weeks until the psychiatrist's report was ready.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cleveland deputy coroner Ronald Smith said as there was a possibility of industrial disease he was adjourning the hearing pending further inquiries.
▪ It was almost noon when the meeting adjourned.
▪ Magistrates adjourned the hearing until May 14.
▪ Sentence was adjourned until May 11 for a probation report.
▪ The case was adjourned to May 6 for reports.
▪ They all agreed and adjourned the meeting just as the candle was burning out.
▪ When the conference was over, the delegates voted not to adjourn, but to constitute themselves as a permanent body.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjourn

Adjourn \Ad*journ\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjourned; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjourning.] [OE. ajornen, OF. ajoiner, ajurner, F. ajourner; OF. a (L. ad) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. Cf. Journal, Journey.] 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.

It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
--Barrow.

'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day.
--Shak.

Syn: To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend.

Usage: To Adjourn, Prorogue, Dissolve. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted.

Adjourn

Adjourn \Ad*journ"\, v. i. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adjourn

early 14c., ajournen, "assign a day" (for convening or reconvening), from Old French ajourner (12c.) "meet" (at an appointed time), from the phrase à jorn "to a stated day" (à "to" + journ "day," from Latin diurnus "daily;" see diurnal).\n

\nThe sense is to set a date for a re-meeting. Meaning "to close a meeting" (with or without intention to reconvene) is from early 15c. Meaning "to go in a body to another place" (1640s) is colloquial. The -d- was added 16c. but is unwarranted, as the compound is not from Latin. Related: Adjourned; adjourning.

Wiktionary
adjourn

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To postpone. 2 (context transitive English) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely. 3 (context intransitive English) To end or suspend an event. 4 (context intransitive formal uncommon English) To move from one place to another.

WordNet
adjourn

  1. v. close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" [syn: recess, break up]

  2. break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: withdraw, retire]

Usage examples of "adjourn".

Lord John Russell simply moved that the house at its rising should adjourn to the Monday following.

The lord-keeper delivered to the house a message from the queen, desiring they would adjourn to the fourteenth day of the month.

The anti-courtiers alleged, that the queen could not send a message to any one house to adjourn, but ought to have directed it to both houses.

Stevens spoke on the 18th of December, and Congress had already voted to adjourn on the 21st for the Christmas recess.

Wade was not sustained by the Senate and the motion to adjourn was carried by 33 to 12.

But as the breach between himself and Congress widened, as the bitterness between the partisans of the Executive and of the Legislative Departments grew more intense, the belief became general, that, as soon as Congress should adjourn, there would be a removal of all Federal officers throughout the Union who were not faithful to the principles, and did not respond to the exactions, of the Administration.

The Senate and the House were both ready to adjourn on the 20th of July, but Mr.

Lord Althorp stated that the house would adjourn for the Christmas holidays.

Ministers were first compelled to adjourn the debate from the 3rd of July to the 10th, and on the 10th it was found necessary to adjourn it again to the 13th.

Lord Althorp here arose to request the house to adjourn, in consequence of circumstances which had come to his knowledge since he had entered the house.

The Emperor might prorogue, adjourn, or dissolve the House of Representatives, whose sittings were to be public.

General Court, asking the judges to adjourn until the General Court could act on behalf of the farmers.

The present state of affairs was this: the assembly having been convened to consider the resolutions passed in parliament, had been adjourned on their refusal to entertain the supplies, or to proceed to business.

On the following day both houses of parliament adjourned to the 16th of January.

After a long speech from Lord Stanley, and a few words from Lord Morpeth in defence of government, the house was adjourned till the following day, when Mr.