- (of a club or committee meeting, legislative or court session, etc.)
- formally ended or closed: This July will see a reopening of the adjourned inquest, in light of subsequent collisions involving similar transport trucks.
- suspended or stopped for the time being, to be resumed at a future time or another place: In the case of an adjourned hearing, persons who were already heard do not need to be notified of the time of the hearing’s resumption.
- being the continuation of such a previously suspended meeting: According to the bylaws, the adjourned meeting must be held at least 10 days after the original meeting.
- postponed or held over to a future occasion, a future specified or unspecified time, etc.: He told an anecdote from the 15th Chess Olympiad, about an adjourned game between Fischer and Botvinnik.
- the simple past tense and past participle of adjourn.
