(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.
Postpone
Definition:
(v. t.) To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.
(v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose was to show whether or not the methylene-blue test can be postponed to the second day.
(2) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
(3) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
(4) Two additional patients became asymptomatic after ECA endarterectomy only and their proposed STA-MCA bypass has been postponed.
(5) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(6) Squirrel monkeys trained to respond under a schedule in which each response postponed the delivery of electric shock developed a steady rate of responding.
(7) When dose 3 of antigen (BSA or EA) was postponed to day +21, all mouse strains sensitized by the multiple-dose procedure were found to be susceptible to shock.
(8) Thus, the clinical threshold where functions disappear is postponed for longer periods of time.
(9) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
(10) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(11) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(12) Its consequences are extensive, damaging procedures and a postponement of a diagnosis which integrates somatic, psychic and social components by seven to eight years.
(13) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
(14) Pretreatment with nifedipine postponed EMD until 120-150 seconds and was not observed in dogs on CPB.
(15) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
(16) Gerrard genuinely has postponed the issue while he pours his life into this tournament.
(17) The Nepalese government has announced that it has postponed a return to classes for schoolchildren across the country by two weeks, to 29 May.
(18) It is believed that support for Bernstein's attempt to postpone the election came from these areas, in reaction to the process that led to Bin Hammam's exclusion from football activity, rather than being a demonstration of anger at the effect of recent corruption allegations.
(19) The basic enviromental causes of enteric disease are clear, current conditions have been aggravated by rapid population growth and urbanization, and basic corrective measures have already been postponed long enough.
(20) "Had Obama even an iota of ethics and morality, he should have postponed or shelved his trip," it said.