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名詞

adjournment (countable and uncountable, plural adjournments)

1. The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.

   At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, “Definitions”, in Robert’s Rules of Order‎, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., pages 15–16:

     A “meeting” of an assembly is terminated by a temporary adjournment; a “session” of an assembly ends with an adjournment without day, and may consist of many meetings […]

2. (rhetoric) Ampliatio.

同意語

• (action of adjourning): deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment

派生語

参考

• adjournment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia