adjournment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the termination of a meeting
    dissolution.
  2. noun the act of postponing to another time or place

WordNet

Ad*journ"ment noun
Etymology
Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn.
Definitions
  1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
  2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Webster 1913