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adjournment

/uh-jurn-muhnt/US // əˈdʒɜrn mənt //

休会,休庭,休会期,休会期间

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of adjourning or the state or period of being adjourned.

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Examples

  • State attorney prayed for an adjournment to scrutinise the 74 sureties.

  • Once that is done, this year’s session will be able to adjourn — although for procedural reasons, the actual adjournment is scheduled for Monday.

  • Judge Masipa allowed the video to be aired after a brief adjournment so that both sets of counsel could negotiate the matter.

  • Second, the two houses of Congress must disagree about the time of adjournment.

  • In the last two weeks before adjournment, House candidates attended more than 400 fundraisers in the D.C. area.

  • When adjournment was declared a few moments later, she left at once, but the others remained to talk the matter over.

  • The amendment was seconded by Mr. Bannerman, and the debate was continued by adjournment on the 25th and 26th of February.

  • The settlement of the civil list left ministers at liberty to move the immediate adjournment of the house.

  • The debate on the third reading commenced on the 10th of May, and was continued for two nights by adjournment.

  • The General Court met again, according to adjournment in May last.