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Definition of adjournment : 1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Synonyms:

profligacy, postponement, disintegration, recess, deferral, break, looseness, delay, time, dissipation, dissolution, intermission, stay, licentiousness, pause, waiver, dissolving, breakup, deferment

inaction, abeyance, suspension, reservation

Usage examples:

• It was late when fathers and mothers in the company began to suggest adjournment. - "Alice of Old Vincennes", Maurice Thompson.
• The appearance of the Governor about an hour afterwards, was the signal for an adjournment to dinner. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
• Yet if counsel was to be heard he asked an adjournment to enable him to engage and instruct lawyers. - "Benjamin Franklin", John Torrey Morse, Jr..