What's the difference between adjourn and adjournment?
Adjourn
Definition:
(v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.
(v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proceedings were adjourned until 9.30am local time on Tuesday.
(2) It was on that basis that he resumed the adjourned inquest, at which Lugovoy is represented by counsel.
(3) On 10 December, he secured an adjournment debate to deliver the third speech in the Commons on schizophrenia since 1967, which will be his big focus for 2013.
(4) The court re-affirmed its ruling and parliament met for five minutes before adjourning, pending an appeal to a lower court.
(5) 11.19am BST State could ask for Pistorius' mental health to be assessed Nel says he wants to use the adjournment to study the provisions of Criminal Procedures Act, to see whether the prosecution might consider making a request for Pistorius to be assessed by the state: Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) Nel asks for break.
(6) A meeting on Friday morning of the OPCW's executive council in The Hague had been adjourned to work on the wording of the plan.
(7) Walker, who secured an adjournment debate in the Commons on schizophrenia in December, is exercised by the fact that the unemployment rate for people with this diagnosis stands at 92% – a figure he wants to see drop to 50%.
(8) The upheaval, which may spark protests, came after a court case launched by O'Neill's lawyers to stay the warrant for his arrest was adjourned until next week.
(9) Bob Watson, chief scientist at the environment department, Defra, and a former White House adviser in the mid-1990s, said it could be possible to adjourn the Copenhagen meeting if agreement is not reached.
(10) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
(11) The hearing was then adjourned for the judge and jurors to further consider the sentences for the remaining defendants.
(12) Day 18: 8 April 2014 The court adjourned early after the defence said Pistorius was too emotional to continue his testimony.
(13) Nel jokes that nobody has ever accused him of not "asking enough questions" before, but does not object to another 30-minute adjournment .
(14) He has had a stroke and is blind in one eye.” Asking for Reader’s sentence to be adjourned, Scobie said: “We suspect the prognosis for him, long term, is poor.
(15) Updated at 2.10pm GMT 1.47pm GMT The court has adjourned until tomorrow morning.
(16) Vos granted the adjournment "with considerable regret" to enable her lawyers to apply for a deposition from Macpherson, who is in Australia.
(17) The SDLP leader, Alasdair McDonnell, said: “Adjournment would not have added anything, an adjournment would have been there and when the adjournment was over we would still have been drifting toward suspension.
(18) It said the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, and foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, had sought a six-month adjournment in September in an attempt to allow the two countries “to seek an amicable settlement”.
(19) The Ukraine Freedom Support Act passed both the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday, but because of a technical issue it returned to the Senate where it passed by unanimous consent moments before the chamber adjourned late on Saturday night.
(20) The judge gave his ruling in a packed courtroom and went on to read a summary of his lengthy judgment, before adjourning.
Adjournment
Definition:
(n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
(n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proceedings were adjourned until 9.30am local time on Tuesday.
(2) It was on that basis that he resumed the adjourned inquest, at which Lugovoy is represented by counsel.
(3) On 10 December, he secured an adjournment debate to deliver the third speech in the Commons on schizophrenia since 1967, which will be his big focus for 2013.
(4) The court re-affirmed its ruling and parliament met for five minutes before adjourning, pending an appeal to a lower court.
(5) 11.19am BST State could ask for Pistorius' mental health to be assessed Nel says he wants to use the adjournment to study the provisions of Criminal Procedures Act, to see whether the prosecution might consider making a request for Pistorius to be assessed by the state: Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) Nel asks for break.
(6) A meeting on Friday morning of the OPCW's executive council in The Hague had been adjourned to work on the wording of the plan.
(7) Walker, who secured an adjournment debate in the Commons on schizophrenia in December, is exercised by the fact that the unemployment rate for people with this diagnosis stands at 92% – a figure he wants to see drop to 50%.
(8) The upheaval, which may spark protests, came after a court case launched by O'Neill's lawyers to stay the warrant for his arrest was adjourned until next week.
(9) Bob Watson, chief scientist at the environment department, Defra, and a former White House adviser in the mid-1990s, said it could be possible to adjourn the Copenhagen meeting if agreement is not reached.
(10) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
(11) The hearing was then adjourned for the judge and jurors to further consider the sentences for the remaining defendants.
(12) Day 18: 8 April 2014 The court adjourned early after the defence said Pistorius was too emotional to continue his testimony.
(13) Nel jokes that nobody has ever accused him of not "asking enough questions" before, but does not object to another 30-minute adjournment .
(14) He has had a stroke and is blind in one eye.” Asking for Reader’s sentence to be adjourned, Scobie said: “We suspect the prognosis for him, long term, is poor.
(15) Updated at 2.10pm GMT 1.47pm GMT The court has adjourned until tomorrow morning.
(16) Vos granted the adjournment "with considerable regret" to enable her lawyers to apply for a deposition from Macpherson, who is in Australia.
(17) The SDLP leader, Alasdair McDonnell, said: “Adjournment would not have added anything, an adjournment would have been there and when the adjournment was over we would still have been drifting toward suspension.
(18) It said the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, and foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, had sought a six-month adjournment in September in an attempt to allow the two countries “to seek an amicable settlement”.
(19) The Ukraine Freedom Support Act passed both the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday, but because of a technical issue it returned to the Senate where it passed by unanimous consent moments before the chamber adjourned late on Saturday night.
(20) The judge gave his ruling in a packed courtroom and went on to read a summary of his lengthy judgment, before adjourning.