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adjourn

verb
🔊/əˈdʒɜːn/
🔊/əˈdʒɜːrn/
 [intransitive, transitive, often passive] (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they adjourn
🔊/əˈdʒɜːn/
🔊/əˈdʒɜːrn/
he / she / it adjourns
🔊/əˈdʒɜːnz/
🔊/əˈdʒɜːrnz/
past simple adjourned
🔊/əˈdʒɜːnd/
🔊/əˈdʒɜːrnd/
past participle adjourned
🔊/əˈdʒɜːnd/
🔊/əˈdʒɜːrnd/
-ing form adjourning
🔊/əˈdʒɜːnɪŋ/
🔊/əˈdʒɜːrnɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. to stop a meeting or an official process, especially a trial, for a period of time休庭；休会；延期
    • The court adjourned for lunch.午餐时间法庭休庭。🔊🔊
    • adjourn something The trial has been adjourned until next week.审判延期至下周。🔊🔊
    • The chairman may adjourn the meeting at any time.主席可随时将会议休会。
    Extra Examples
    • Magistrates adjourned the hearing until May 14.地方法院将听证会押后至5月14日。
    • Mr Justice Latham adjourned sentence until Friday week.莱瑟姆法官将休庭期延长至星期五。
    • The case was adjourned for a week.本案休庭了一个星期。
    • The court will normally adjourn to allow the collection of further evidence.法院通常将休庭以允许收集进一步的证据。
    • The inquest was adjourned pending further investigations.审理暂缓，等候进一步调查。
    • The trial was adjourned indefinitely.审判被无限期推迟。
    Topics Working lifec2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • indefinitely
    • sine die
    preposition
    • for
    • pending
    • to
    • …
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    Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘summon someone to appear on a particular day’): from Old French ajorner, from the phrase a jorn (nome) ‘to an (appointed) day’.