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Refresher :: Refresher (n.) An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted..

Rejournment :: Rejournment (n.) Adjournment.

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day..

Adjourning :: Adjourning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjour.

Continuance :: Continuance (n.) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate..

Postpone :: Postpone (v. t.) To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely..

Adjournal :: Adjournal (n.) Adjournment; postponement.

Move :: Move (v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn..

#NAME? :: -ment () A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment..

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Motion :: Motion (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..

Readjournment :: Readjournment (n.) The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

Rejourn :: Rejourn (v. t.) To adjourn; to put off.

Readjourn :: Readjourn (v. t.) To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.

Continuance :: Continuance (n.) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another..

Adjourned :: Adjourned (imp. & p. p.) of Adjour.

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..

Session :: Session (n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term..

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