Present tense form meaning to suspend a meeting or session and schedule it to continue at another time.
From adjourn (ad- + jour 'day'). Standard third-person singular present tense.
When a judge adjourns court, they're using a word literally meaning 'to another day' (jour)—it's one of English's most direct metaphors for time, where literally postponing means moving to the next date.
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