Usually means: Pause proceedings to another time.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjourn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adjourn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adjourn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adjourn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adjourn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adjourn, adjourn: Wordnik
  7. adjourn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adjourn: Wiktionary
  9. adjourn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adjourn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adjourn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adjourn: Dictionary.com
  13. adjourn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adjourn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Adjourn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adjourn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adjourn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adjourn: Rhymezone
  19. adjourn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adjourn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Adjourn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. adjourn: Free Dictionary
  23. adjourn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. adjourn: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. adjourn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. adjourn: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjourn: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. adjourn: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. adjourn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adjourn: Encyclopedia

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  1. adjourn: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To postpone.
verb:  (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
verb:  (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
verb:  (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.

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