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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ad·journ /əˈʤɝn/
 (vi.)延期,休會,換地方(vt.)使中止

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ad·journ v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjourned p. pr. & vb. n. Adjourning ]  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.
    It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.   --Barrow.
 'Tis a needful fitness
 That we adjourn this court till further day.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend.
 Usage: -- To Adjourn, Prorogue, Dissolve.  These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ad·journ, 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 adjourn
      v 1: close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" [syn: recess,
            break up]
      2: break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch";
         "The men retired to the library" [syn: withdraw, retire]