adjourn
verb /əˈdʒɜːn/
/əˈdʒɜːrn/
[intransitive, transitive, often passive] (formal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they adjourn | /əˈdʒɜːn/ /əˈdʒɜːrn/ |
| he / she / it adjourns | /əˈdʒɜːnz/ /əˈdʒɜːrnz/ |
| past simple adjourned | /əˈdʒɜːnd/ /əˈdʒɜːrnd/ |
| past participle adjourned | /əˈdʒɜːnd/ /əˈdʒɜːrnd/ |
| -ing form adjourning | /əˈdʒɜːnɪŋ/ /əˈdʒɜːrnɪŋ/ |
- to stop a meeting or an official process, especially a trial, for a period of time
- The court adjourned for lunch.
- adjourn something The trial has been adjourned until next week.
- The chairman may adjourn the meeting at any time.
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifec2- Magistrates adjourned the hearing until May 14.
- Mr Justice Latham adjourned sentence until Friday week.
- The case was adjourned for a week.
- The court will normally adjourn to allow the collection of further evidence.
- The inquest was adjourned pending further investigations.
- The trial was adjourned indefinitely.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- indefinitely
- sine die
- for
- pending
- to
- …
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘summon someone to appear on a particular day’): from Old French ajorner, from the phrase a jorn (nome) ‘to an (appointed) day’.