adjourn

adjourn is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.
2. intransitive verb. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.
3. verb. close at the end of a session

   "The court adjourned"

   Synonyms: recess

4. verb. break from a meeting or gathering

   "We adjourned for lunch"

   "The men retired to the library"

   Synonyms: retire, withdraw

Synonyms

recess, retire, withdraw

Common word forms

adjourns, adjournal, adjourned, adjourning, adjournment

Words from these letters

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