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adjournment 音标拼音: [ədʒ'ɚnmənt] n. 延期,休会,休会期间 延期,休会,休会期间 adjournment n 1: the termination of a meeting [ synonym: { adjournment}, { dissolution}] 2: the act of postponing to another time or placeAdjournment \ Ad* journ" ment\ (- ment), n. [ Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See { Adjourn}.] 1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. [ 1913 Webster] ADJOURNMENT. The dismissal by some court, legislative assembly, or properlyauthorized officer, of the business before them, either finally, which iscalled an adjournment sine die, without day; or, to meet again at anothertime appointed, which is called a temporary adjournment. 2. The constitutionof the United States, art. 1, s. 5, 4, directs that " neither house, duringthe session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjournfor more than three days, nor to any other place, that that in which the twohouses shall be sitting." Vide Com. Dig. h. t.; Vin. Ab. h. t.; Dict. deJur. h. t.
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