adjourn

adjourn

postpone; suspend a meeting to a future time: adjourn the court; to go to another place: They will adjourn to the bar after the last seminar.
Not to be confused with:adjoin – close to or in contact with: The island nearly adjoins the mainland.; attach; affixadjunct – appendix, supplement; an aide, attaché, or assistant: an adjunct to the consul

ad·journ

A0089300 (ə-jûrn′)v. ad·journed, ad·journ·ing, ad·journs v.tr. To suspend until a later stated time.v.intr.1. To suspend proceedings to another time or place.2. To move to a new location, especially to a less formal setting: After the meal, we adjourned to the living room.

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[Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajourner : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + jour, day (from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, daily, from diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots).]

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ad·journ′ment n.

adjourn

(əˈdʒɜːn) vb1. (intr) (of a court, etc) to close at the end of a session2. to postpone or be postponed, esp temporarily or to another place3. (tr) to put off (a problem, discussion, etc) for later consideration; defer4. (intr) informal a. to move elsewhere: let's adjourn to the kitchen. b. to stop work[C14: from Old French ajourner to defer to an arranged day, from a- to + jour day, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus daily, from diēs day] adˈjournment n

ad•journ

(əˈdʒɜrn)

v.t. 1. to suspend the meeting of (a legislature, court, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely. 2. to defer or postpone (a meeting) to a later time. 3. to defer or postpone (a matter) to a future time. v.i. 4. to postpone, suspend, or transfer proceedings. 5. to go to another place: to adjourn to the living room. [1300–50; Middle English ajo(u)rnen < Old French ajo(u)rner, v. derivative of phrase a jorn (nome) to an (appointed) day; see ad-, journey]

adjourn

Past participle: adjourned
Gerund: adjourning

Imperative
adjourn
adjourn

Present
I adjourn
you adjourn
he/she/it adjourns
we adjourn
you adjourn
they adjourn

Preterite
I adjourned
you adjourned
he/she/it adjourned
we adjourned
you adjourned
they adjourned

Present Continuous
I am adjourning
you are adjourning
he/she/it is adjourning
we are adjourning
you are adjourning
they are adjourning

Present Perfect
I have adjourned
you have adjourned
he/she/it has adjourned
we have adjourned
you have adjourned
they have adjourned

Past Continuous
I was adjourning
you were adjourning
he/she/it was adjourning
we were adjourning
you were adjourning
they were adjourning

Past Perfect
I had adjourned
you had adjourned
he/she/it had adjourned
we had adjourned
you had adjourned
they had adjourned

Future
I will adjourn
you will adjourn
he/she/it will adjourn
we will adjourn
you will adjourn
they will adjourn

Future Perfect
I will have adjourned
you will have adjourned
he/she/it will have adjourned
we will have adjourned
you will have adjourned
they will have adjourned

Future Continuous
I will be adjourning
you will be adjourning
he/she/it will be adjourning
we will be adjourning
you will be adjourning
they will be adjourning

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been adjourning
you have been adjourning
he/she/it has been adjourning
we have been adjourning
you have been adjourning
they have been adjourning

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been adjourning
you will have been adjourning
he/she/it will have been adjourning
we will have been adjourning
you will have been adjourning
they will have been adjourning

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been adjourning
you had been adjourning
he/she/it had been adjourning
we had been adjourning
you had been adjourning
they had been adjourning

Conditional
I would adjourn
you would adjourn
he/she/it would adjourn
we would adjourn
you would adjourn
they would adjourn

Past Conditional
I would have adjourned
you would have adjourned
he/she/it would have adjourned
we would have adjourned
you would have adjourned
they would have adjourned

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	adjourn - close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"recess, break upend, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
	2.	adjourn - break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"retire, withdrawseclude, sequestrate, sequester, withdraw - keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"close down, close up, shut down, close, fold - cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"prorogue - adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body

adjourn

verb postpone, delay, suspend, interrupt, put off, stay, defer, recess, discontinue, put on the back burner (informal), prorogue, take a rain check on (U.S. & Canad. informal) The proceedings have been adjourned until next week.
open, continue, remain, stay, gather, assemble, reopen, convene

adjourn

verbTo put off until a later time:defer, delay, hold off, hold up, postpone, remit, shelve, stay, suspend, table, waive.Informal: wait.Idiom: put on ice.

Translations

休会

adjourn

(əˈdʒəːn) verb to stop (a meeting etc), intending to continue it at another time or place. We shall adjourn (the meeting) until Wednesday. 休會 休会aˈdjournment noun 休會 休会