adjournments
Meetings paused temporarily
Adjournments are instances of postponing or suspending proceedings to continue at a later time.
Courts take adjournments between sessions; meetings adjourn until the following week.
The word implies a temporary pause rather than a permanent end: The judge granted a brief adjournment so the defense could review new evidence.
Sustained extension forward
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
- judgeOne who decides
docket · case · postponement · stay · motion · counsel · litigation · proceedings
Pause in activity
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
quorum · prorogation · gavel · chamber · floor · motion · vote · speaker
Delaying to later
- delayEnforced waiting period
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
- intermissionScheduled performance pause
- pauseTemporary cessation of activity
break · interruption · deferment · tabling · shelving · standstill · hiatus · cessation
continuance
Sustained extension forward
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
judge · docket · case · postponement · stay · motion · counsel · litigation · proceedings · recess
recess
Pause in activity
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- committeeAppointed group for duties
filibuster · quorum · prorogation · gavel · chamber · floor · motion · vote · speaker · debate
postponement
Delaying to later
- delayEnforced waiting period
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
- intermissionScheduled performance pause
pause · break · interruption · deferment · tabling · shelving · standstill · hiatus · cessation · halt
- litigationpleadings, lawsuit, plaintiff, complaint, lawsuits
- courtsfamily court, civil court, district court, criminal court, circuit court
- lower courtsmagistrates court, district court, district courts, municipal court, municipal courts
adjournmentscontinuations
Things that proceed onward
resumptions · continuances · sessions · extensions · proceedings
adjournmentscommencements
Formal starting occasions
openings · convocations · inaugurations · resumptions · calls to order
adjournmentsconclusions
Judgments reached through reasoning
terminations · closures · dissolutions · completions · wrap-ups