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“adjourn”
adjoin, adjourn
adjoin (uh JOIN) (verb)
To be next to; to be in contact with: "Yes, as strange as it may be, the hospital did adjoin the cemetery."
adjourn (uh JURN) (verb)
1. To put off or to suspend until a future time: "The meeting will adjourn until next week."
2. Move, depart for: "Having finished dinner, the guests decided to adjourn to the living room for coffee."
2. Move, depart for: "Having finished dinner, the guests decided to adjourn to the living room for coffee."
As chairman, Curtis decided to adjourn the meeting so the group could go for their lunch in the restaurant which adjoined their meeting place.
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adjourn
To suspend or delay until a later stated time.
To suspend the business of a court, legislature, or committee temporarily or indefinitely, or to become suspended temporarily or indefinitely.
adjourn (uh JURN)
1. To put off or suspend until a future time; recess, interrupt, dissolve: "The meeting was adjourned until next week."
2. Move, depart for: "Having finished dinner, they adjourned to the living room."
2. Move, depart for: "Having finished dinner, they adjourned to the living room."
Adjourn comes from Old French ajorner, "to set a day for the reopening of a meeting", from the phrase à jorn nommé, "to an appointed day".