To adjourn is to stop a meeting or court session for a time, with the plan to start again later. It can also mean to move to another place for another purpose.
From Old French 'ajourner', meaning 'to set a day (for)', from 'à jour' (to a day). It originally referred to postponing something to another fixed day.
Adjourn is a formal way of saying, 'Pause here, continue later.' Courts and committees love this word because it keeps the story open—nothing is truly over, just moved to another time or place.
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