adjournment

English

Etymology

From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, equivalent to adjourn +‎ -ment.

Noun

adjournment (countable and uncountable, plural adjournments)

1. The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.

   At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, “Definitions”, in Robert’s Rules of Order‎^[1], Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., pages 15–16:

     A “meeting” of an assembly is terminated by a temporary adjournment; a “session” of an assembly ends with an adjournment without day, and may consist of many meetings […]

2. (rhetoric) Ampliatio.

Synonyms

• (action of adjourning): deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment

Derived terms

• adjournment sine die
• nonadjournment
• readjournment

Translations

the state of being adjourned

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 延緩 / 延缓 (zh) (yánhuǎn) (postponement), 休會 / 休会 (zh) (xiūhuì) (recess)

• French: ajournement (fr) m, suspension (fr) f
• German: Vertagung f (postponement), Verschiebung (de) f
• Greek: αναβολή (el) f (anavolí) (postponement), διακοπή (el) f (diakopí) (break, recess)
• Hungarian: elhalasztás (hu)
• Indonesian: penangguhan (id)
• Japanese: 延期 (ja) (えんき, enki) (postponement), 休会 (ja) (きゅうかい, kyūkai) (recess)
• Malay: penangguhan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ajournement n, utsettelse m, utsetning m or f, utsetting m or f

• Russian: отсро́чка (ru) f (otsróčka) (postponement), заде́ржка (ru) f (zadéržka) (delay), переры́в (ru) m (pererýv) (recess)
• Spanish: suspensión (es) f
• Swedish: ajournering (sv) c

See also

• adjournment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia