adjourn
verb (used with object)
to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely.
has been adjourning
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present perfect progressiveof adjourn (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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While floor action often runs beyond dinnertime in busier periods, the Senate has been adjourning around 5:30 p.m.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our court has been adjourning from day to day, until Colonel Turchin should succeed in procuring counsel; but it is now in full blast.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty
