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Adjournal
Adjournal Ad*journ"al, n. Adjournment; postponement. [R.] ``An adjournal of the Diet.' --Sir W. Scott.
Adjournment
Adjournment Ad*journ"ment (-ment), n. [Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn.] 1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. 2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Readjourn
Readjourn Re`ad*journ", v. t. To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.
Readjournment
Readjournment Re`ad*journ"ment, n. The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

Meaning of Adjourn from wikipedia

- In parliamentary procedure, an adjournment ends a meeting. It could be done using a motion to adjourn. A time for another meeting could be set using the...
- Adjournment sine die (from Latin "without a date") is the conclusion of a meeting by a deliberative ****embly, such as a legislature or organizational...
- In the Westminster system, an adjournment debate is a debate on the motion, "That this House do now adjourn." In practice, this is a way of enabling the...
- A Motion to Adjourn is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Roy Clements and starring Harry L. Rattenberry, Roy Stewart and Marjorie Daw. The...
- Some board games, such as chess and Go, use an adjournment mechanism to suspend the game in progress, or at least did so before the advent of computer...
- In criminal procedure, an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD or ACOD) allows a court to defer the disposition of a defendant's case, with...
- An Act of Adjournal is secondary legislation made by the High Court of Justiciary, the supreme criminal court of Scotland, to regulate the proceedings...
- In the United States, conditional adjournment refers to the authority given to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore...
- the president to "convene or adjourn Congress" ... "on extraordinary occasions", a power that has never been used to adjourn Congress, though it has been...
- usual way of resolving disagreements following discussion of the issues Adjourning the meeting While presiding, the chair should remain impartial and not...