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to adjourn
01
to stop a meeting, trial, or game in order to resume it sometime later
Transitive: to adjourn an activity
Examples
The judge decided to adjourn the trial until the next day.
02
(of an event or meeting) to be closed or paused
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
adjourn
3rd person singular
adjourns
Present participle
adjourning
Past simple
adjourned
Past participle
adjourned
Examples
The meeting will adjourn after the final vote on the proposal.
Lexical Tree
adjournment
adjourn
