• Adjournment

    Origin

    Full definition of adjournment

    Noun

    adjournment

    (plural adjournments)
    1. The state of being adjourned.Adjournment didn't come a minute too soon for those of us who needed the toilet.
    2. The action of adjourning.At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
    3. (rhetoric) Ampliatio.
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