Adjournment in a sentence as a noun

My lawyer had to give him her own copy which he briefly skimmed without adjournment.

I suggested an overnight adjournment so that we could both make detailed preparations, and we met again the next day.

You can double the length of a lawsuit in one simple stroke just by having your attorney say "Sorry that week is bad for me can we do [date]" every time there's a continuance or adjournment.

If one was expecting to be impeached, for example, a little procedural hiccup on the timetable of adjournment would be sufficient to suspend legislative business altogether.

This brought the closest the defence have come to a protest, with the defence pointing out they have still not addressed the new superseding indictment, and that the judge refused their request for an adjournment before witness hearings started, to give them time to do so.> Edward Fitzgerald QC for the defence also pointed out that there had been numerous witnesses whose evidence had to be taken into account, and the written closing submissions had to be physically prepared with reference to the transcripts and other supporting evidence from the trial.

Adjournment definitions

noun

the termination of a meeting

See also: dissolution

noun

the act of postponing to another time or place