- to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: At this point in the trial, the judge adjourned the court session so the defense could access and review the test results.
- to defer or postpone to a later time: Too many board members would have been absent, so the chair adjourned the meeting to next Monday.
- to defer or postpone (a matter) to a future meeting of the same body, or to a future time, specified or not specified: We will adjourn discussion of point 5.2 to our April meeting.
- to postpone, suspend, or transfer proceedings.
- to go to another place: After dinner the ladies adjourned to the parlor.
- (of a court, etc) to close at the end of a session
- to postpone or be postponed, esp temporarily or to another place
- to put off (a problem, discussion, etc) for later consideration; defer
- (intr) informal
- to move elsewhere
- to stop work
