"adjournment" meaning in English

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Noun

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 /延缓 (yánhuǎn) (english: postponement) (Chinese Mandarin), 休會 /休会 (xiūhuì) (english: recess) (Chinese Mandarin), ajournement [masculine] (French), suspension [feminine] (French), Vertagung (english: postponement) [feminine] (German), Verschiebung [feminine] (German), αναβολή (anavolí) (english: postponement) [feminine] (Greek), διακοπή (diakopí) (english: break, recess) [feminine] (Greek), 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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 93 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 98 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 96 4 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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    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "postponement",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otsróčka",
      "sense": "the state of being adjourned",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "отсро́чка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "delay",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zadéržka",
      "sense": "the state of being adjourned",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "заде́ржка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "recess",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pererýv",
      "sense": "the state of being adjourned",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "переры́в"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state of being adjourned",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "suspensión"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the state of being adjourned",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ajournering"
    }
  ],
  "word": "adjournment"
}

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