adjourn meaning

adjourn as a verb

1. close at the end of a session
   • The court adjourned

   Synonyms: recess, break up

   Type of: end

   Related forms: adjournment

2. break from a meeting or gathering
   • We adjourned for lunch
   • The men retired to the library

   Synonyms: withdraw, retire

   Type of: close up

   Kinds: prorogue

   Related forms: adjournment

adjourn in a sentence

• We adjourned the meeting until the following Friday.
• I move that the meeting adjourn.
• The meeting was adjourned until the next week.
• The committee adjourned for two weeks.
• When dinner was over, we adjourned to the sitting room.

How to pronounce adjourn

adjourn is pronounced /əˈdʒɜːn/ in British English and /əˈdʒɝn/ in American English. It has 2 syllables, with the stress on the second syllable.

Words that rhyme with adjourn

• turn
• return
• burn
• concern
• learn
• stern
• earn
• churn
• spurn
• yearn
• fern
• tern
• intern