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adjourn

Legal Definition of adjourn

Verb

  1. put off
  2. postpone
  3. break off (a meeting, etc) temporarily

Definition of adjourn

Pronunciation

Verb

to adjourn (third-person singular simple present adjourns, present participle adjourning, simple past and past participle adjourned)

  1. (transitive) To postpone.
  2. (transitive) Temporarily ending an event with intentions to complete it at another time or place.
  3. (intransitive) Of an event: To end or suspend
  4. (intransitive) To move from one place to another.

See also

  • adjournment

References:

  1. Wiktionary. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Translation of adjourn in Malay

Tangguh

  1. tangguh



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