Word Meanings - ADJOURN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: ADJOURN

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. -- 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. (more info) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADJOURN)

• Defer
• Delay
• postpone
• waive
• adjourn
• prorogue
• put off
• retard
• procrastinate
• protract
• hinder
• prolong
• Prorogue
• Adjourn
• defer

Related words: (words related to ADJOURN)

• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• DEFERENTIALLY
  With deference.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• WAIVE
  A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 , and the Note. (more info) 1. A waif; a castaway. Donne.
• PROLONGE
  A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
• POSTPONE
  1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• PROCRASTINATE
  To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak. Syn. -- To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay;
• POSTPONER
  One who postpones.
• DEFERENTIAL
  Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
• RETARDATION
  The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards. 4. The extent to which anything
• DEFER
  To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton. (more info) different ways; dis-
• PROTRACTILE
  Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
• DEFERMENT
  The act of delaying; postponement. My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.
• PROLONGATE
  To prolong; to extend in space or in time.
• PROTRACT
  To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot. (more info) 1. To draw out or lengthen in time or in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war. 2. To put off to
• PROLONGATION
  1. The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. Bacon. 2. That which forms an additional length.
• DEFERVESCENCE; DEFERVESCENCY
  The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia. (more info) 1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. A defervescency in holy actions. Jer. Taylor.
• ADJOURNAL
  Adjournment; postponement. "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.
• PROLONGABLE
  Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.
• READJOURN
  To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.