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• past participle of adjourn.
• past tense form of adjourn.

adjourned

American  

[uh-jurnd] / əˈdʒɜrnd /

adjective

1. (of a club or committee meeting, legislative or court session, etc.)

   1. formally ended or closed.

      This July will see a reopening of the adjourned inquest, in light of subsequent collisions involving similar transport trucks.

   2. 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.

   3. 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.

2. 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.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of adjourn.

Other Word Forms

• unadjourned
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of adjourned

First recorded in 1530–40; adjourn ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; adjourn ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

Adjourned until Dec, 10 in memory of President Harding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adjourned to Saturday, October 26th, at 11 A.M.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.

Adjourned to Monday, 28 Oct., at 11 o'clock, A.M.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.

Adjourned till Monday evening next at six o'clock.

From Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States Assembled at Philadelphia, on the seventh day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and continued, by adjournments, until the fourteenth day of the same month, inclusive by Poulson, Zachariah

The Whigs were regularly floored; only four Whigs to eleven Tories, but they very nearly kept up with them in coughing and 'hear, hears,' Adjourned to Monday after 4.

From The Grand Old Man by Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)

Related Words

• delayed
• negotiated
• postponed