adjourning
Suspending until later
Adjourning is the act of suspending or ending a meeting, session, or proceeding, typically with the intention to resume later: The committee is adjourning until next Tuesday.
Courts adjourn, legislatures adjourn, and any formal gathering may adjourn when business concludes or a break is needed.
To adjourn can also mean to move somewhere else: Let's adjourn to the bar.
Pause in activity
- postponeDelay to later time
- suspendHalt or hang temporarily
- gavelSmall ceremonial hammer
- motionChange in position
session · reconvene · chamber · proceedings · deliberation · quorum · table · defer
recess
Pause in activity
motion · session · reconvene · chamber · proceedings · deliberation · quorum · table · defer · committee
continuance
Sustained extension forward
postponement · judge · counsel · bench · sidebar · chambers · docket · ruling · case · testimony
conclude
End or infer
dismiss · reschedule · disperse · agenda · minutes · boardroom · conference · closing · resume · participants
- leadershipleadership styles, leader, leadership skills, boss, leading
- speech actsspeaking, talking, uttering, pronouncement, locution
adjourningcontinuing
Going on without stopping
proceeding · resuming · persisting · carrying on · pressing on
adjourningconvening
Formally gathering together
assembling · convoking · calling to order · opening · gathering