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adjournment 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/əˈjərnmənt/,
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adjournments, plural;
  1. An act or period of adjourning or being adjourned
    • - she sought an adjournment of the trial
    • - I suggest we have a short adjournment
  1. the termination of a meeting
  2. the act of postponing to another time or place
  3. (adjourn) close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
  4. (adjourn) break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"
  5. Some boardgames, such as chess or Go, use an adjournment mechanism to suspend the game in progress so it can be continued at another time, typically the following day. The rationale is that games often extend in duration beyond what is reasonable for a single session of play. ...
  6. The state of being adjourned; The action of adjourning; Ampliatio
  7. (adjourn) To postpone; Temporarily ending an event with intentions to complete it at another time or place; Of an event: To end or suspend; To move from one place to another
  8. (adjourn) A motion to adjourn in the Senate (or a committee) ends that day's session.
  9. (Adjourn) To suspend a court proceeding or hearing until a later set date.
  10. (ADJOURN) A privileged motion to officially close a meeting. A second is required and a majority vote is required to adopt it. If a time is not set, it is an unqualified adjournment and debate is not allowed even if it is made while no question is pending. ...
  11. (ADJOURN (motion to)) An action to discontinue proceedings for the day; a privileged motion non-debatable, not subject to amendment, and requires for its adoption the assenting votes of a majority of the members present and voting.
  12. (Adjourn (a Hearing)) (WCB) To put off or suspend until a future time, without making any findings.
  13. (Adjourn) All UN or Model UN sessions end with a vote to adjourn. This means that the debate is suspended until the next meeting. This can be a short time (e.g., overnight) or a long time (until next year's conference).
  14. (Adjourn) Ends that committee’s deliberations and closes out the session until it convenes again next year.
  15. (Adjourn) To end daily session.
  16. (Adjourn) To postpone or interrupt a court case until another day or to close the court for a period of time. (Note - sometimes the word remand is used.)
  17. (Adjourn) To put something off to another time eg: if a court case cannot proceed when in comes before the court, it may be adjourned to a later date
  18. (Adjourn) postpone action of a convened legislative body until another time specified
  19. (Adjourn) to reschedule or postpone a case to another date.
  20. (adjourn) To close a meeting of a committee, the Senate or the House of Representatives. Generally speaking, session days of the House of Representatives begin or end with a procedural motion—normally submitted in writing and read by the Reading Clerk—declaring when the body will next convene. ...
  21. (adjourn) To suspend a court hearing to a future specified day or sine die (q.v.). Also: adjournment.
  22. (Adjourned) The tribunal hearing is stopped, usually for one of the parties to obtain further information.
  23. (adjourning) The final stage in Tuckman’s model of team development. Team members anticipate the project coming to an end and the team being disbanded.
  24. (adjourning) The final stage of group development for temporary groups during which group members are concerned with wrapping up activities rather than task performance.
  25. a temporary postponement of the proceedings of a case until a specified future time