Definitions for "Adjournment"
The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Postponement of a court session until another time or place.
an interruption in play to enable both players to obtain analytical help from their chessmaster-friends, chess libraries, or chess computers.
an interruption in play to enable both players to obtain analytical help from their chessmaster friends or their chess libraries.
A delay asked for by the Judge or either side. The Judge must agree to the delay.
To put the hearing of a case off to a future date. Either Crown counsel or defence counsel can request it. The judge makes the decision.
A continuance or delay for a specific period of time requested after the appointment of an Arbitrator. See Time Extension and Stay.
If it is not possible to finish a game within the prescribed time, the players may ADJOURN to continue at another time. The player whose turn it is to move at the ADJOURNMENT makes a SEALED MOVE.
An unfinished game may be adjourned and continued at a later time/date.
This means the case is only part heard and is being put off to another time or date.
a break in the course of parliamentary business
A motion moved by a member of a legislature to adjourn consideration of the issues in hand for discussing a matter of urgent public importance.
Keywords:  decision, procedural
a procedural decision
Keywords:  bring, close
Bring to a close.