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adjournment

noun as in discontinuation or delay of a proceeding

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His request for adjournment was denied and instead the report was set aside.

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Moments before they were to begin presenting their case, they asked for an adjournment.

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He told a Commons adjournment debate: "There was no hard evidence against Letby, nobody saw her do anything untoward."

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Trudeau's capitulation sets in motion an adjournment until late March, during which parliament is disbanded while Liberal Party members elect a new leader.

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Mr Webb, who has a nine-month-old son, raised the issue in his first adjournment debate as an MP.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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