"adjournment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: adjournments [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, equivalent to adjourn + -ment. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ajournement}} Middle English ajournement, {{der|en|fro|ajornement}} Old French ajornement, {{suffix|en|adjourn|ment}} adjourn + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} adjournment (countable and uncountable, plural adjournments)
  1. The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (action of adjourning): deferral Translations (the state of being adjourned): 延緩 (Chinese Mandarin), 延缓 (yánhuǎn) (english: postponement) (Chinese Mandarin), 休會 (Chinese Mandarin), 休会 (xiūhuì) (english: recess) (Chinese Mandarin), ajournement [masculine] (French), suspension [feminine] (French), Vertagung (english: postponement) [feminine] (German), Verschiebung [feminine] (German), elhalasztás (Hungarian), penangguhan (Indonesian), 延期 (enki) (english: postponement) (alt: えんき) (Japanese), 休会 (kyūkai) (english: recess) (alt: きゅうかい) (Japanese), penangguhan (Malay), ajournement [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), utsettelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), utsetning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), utsetting [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), отсро́чка (otsróčka) (english: postponement) [feminine] (Russian), заде́ржка (zadéržka) (english: delay) [feminine] (Russian), переры́в (pererýv) (english: recess) [masculine] (Russian), suspensión [feminine] (Spanish), ajournering [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-adjournment-en-noun-EG955duy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ment Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 91 9 Disambiguation of 'action of adjourning': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'the state of being adjourned': 99 1
  2. (rhetoric) Ampliatio. Tags: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Categories (topical): Rhetoric
    Sense id: en-adjournment-en-noun-9BEfAcqA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: procrastination, deferment Derived forms: adjournment sine die, nonadjournment, readjournment
Disambiguation of Time: 0 0

Inflected forms

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