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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjournment \Ad*journ"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn.]
The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Old French ajornement "daybreak, dawn; summons (to appear in court)," from ajorner (see adjourn).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being adjourned. 2 The action of adjourning. 3 (context rhetoric English) ampliatio.
WordNet
n. the termination of a meeting [syn: dissolution]
the act of postponing to another time or place
Wikipedia
In parliamentary procedure, an adjournment ends a meeting. It could be done using a motion to adjourn.
A time for another meeting could be set using the motion to fix the time to which to adjourn. This motion establishes an adjourned meeting.
To adjourn to another time or place means to suspend proceedings until a later stated time or place.
Some board games, such as chess and Go, use an adjournment mechanism to suspend the game in progress so it can be continued at another time, typically the following day. The rationale is that games often extend in duration beyond what is reasonable for a single session of play. As in chess, there is sometimes a sealed move, where the next move that would be made is sealed in an envelope, to be played out when the game resumes (normally played by the director or arbiter). This practice ensures that neither player knows what the board position will be when it is their next turn to move.
Usage examples of "adjournment".
The settlement of the civil list left ministers at liberty to move the immediate adjournment of the house.
On the 22nd of December, Lord John Russell rose to move the order of the day, for the house to resolve itself into a committee of supply, and at the same time took occasion to state that, although no measures could be taken by the house with regard to Canada, he nevertheless did not consider himself justified, in the actual condition of that province, to move the adjournment of the house beyond the 16th of January.
On the motion for the second reading, which was moved on the 2nd of June, a debate was commenced, which continued by adjournment for two nights.
The debate continued by adjournment up to February 28th, before any division or amendment took place: the opposition wishing to stop it on the very threshold.
The debate continued by adjournment up to Thursday the 28th of May, most of the peers being anxious to deliver their sentiments on this great subject.
Accordingly, on the 12th of February, on the proposal of the second reading, government opposition was offered: the debate, after an adjournment, was resumed on the 15th, and continued through that day and the next, when the bill was thrown out by an overwhelming majority.
The entry of the adjournment of the house immediately after its meeting on the previous day, out of respect to the memory of the deceased statesman, was an honour which would live for ever in the journals of that house, and an honour which was never before paid to a subject.
In the commons, an adjournment to the 12th of March was proposed and carried.
On meeting parliament, an adjournment until February was approved by all parties.
With the adjournment of the house closed the parliamentary history of 1852.
After a short adjournment, a committee of the lower house presented the thanks of the commons to the duke of Marlborough, for his great services performed to her majesty and the nation in the last campaign, and for his prudent negotiations with her allies.
During the adjournment of the parliament, on account of the Whit-sun-holidays, the Scots of both houses, laying aside all party distinctions, met and deliberated on this subject.
Cabinet, who were present in their official character, those senators who had remained in Washington since the adjournment of Congress were called in as witnesses.
The period between the adjournment of the conventions and the assembling of the Legislatures was so short that there was no time for the maturing of public opinion in the North, and still less for bringing it to bear in any way upon Southern action.
It was estimated that before the adjournment of Congress more than a thousand negroes and many white Unionists had been murdered in the South, without even the slightest attempt at prosecuting the murderers.