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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.
Moments before they were to begin presenting their case, they asked for an adjournment.
He told a Commons adjournment debate: "There was no hard evidence against Letby, nobody saw her do anything untoward."
Trudeau's capitulation sets in motion an adjournment until late March, during which parliament is disbanded while Liberal Party members elect a new leader.
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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