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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of adjourn.

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Examples

  • If a time for an adjourned meeting has been appointed, the chair declares the assembly “adjourned to 8 o’clock next Wednesday evening, ” or whatever is the appointed time.

    Chapter 12. Organization and Meetings. 69. An Occasional or Mass Meeting Henry Martyn 1915

  • And what I say is, "he concluded, with a heavy thump of the table," that theer crowner's quest owt to ha 'been what they term adjourned, until Mrs. Mallathorpe could tell if she did see owt, or if she knew owt, or heer'd owt!

    The Talleyrand Maxim 1899

  • Buuren had every right to be addressed in Afrikaans, adjourned the proceedings.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • After several negroes, both male and female, had been disposed of here, the party again adjourned to another sale-room adjoining.

    Slave Auctions in Richmond, Virginia 1861

  • By the time the German Bundestag adjourned, on July 13, everything seemed full of promise.

    A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

  • Last night when we kind of adjourned the case management conference, you also wanted to be able to talk with your family.

    CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2002 2002

  • If the assembly is one that will have no other meeting, instead of "adjourned," he says

    Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies Henry M. Robert 1880

  • But the House has already adjourned, meaning any corrective action will have to be applied after the fact.

    Veterans Today Jim Davis 2010

  • Planned Meeting on Incident Prevention Put Off incident prevention mechanisms, agreed during the recent round of talks in Geneva, scheduled for May 7 has been "adjourned," EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) said.

    Civil.Ge Daily News 2009

  • Much of the parade crowd "adjourned" to the university's tailgate areas where students, alumni and friends of the university gathered to celebrate Homecoming Day prior to the pre-game show and the game between the Trojans and the Hilltoppers at Movie Gallery Veterans Stadium.

    The Troy Messenger 2008

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