adjourn
He would be seeking an adjournment to prepare his client's defence.
An adjournment was granted to enable Mr. Smith to consider his position.
A court may request an adjournment so that reports on the defendant may be obtained before passing sentence.

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adjournment | Business English

adjournment
noun[ C or U ]
 MEETINGS, LAW formaluk /əˈdʒɜːnmənt/us
the temporary ending of a meeting or trial, or the period of time during which it is temporarily ended:
This trial has a history of delays and repeated adjournments.
The judge granted the request for an adjournment.
The Senate passed the bill, but the House didn't vote on it before adjournment.

Examples of adjournment

adjournment
The necessity for conditional adjournment became clear to us during our study of non-standard reductions in calculi with inductive types.
As a consequence, if copies do not contain 1-recursive operator, the proof by adjournment is straightforward.
There would be no limitation on the adjournment and, hence, no possibility of a filibuster succeeding.
A filibuster can never be successfully waged unless the time for adjournment is definitely and irrevocably fixed.
Self-imposed agreements are often more stable, and so the adjournment strategy is often a good one.
Thus, in this case, the adjournment proof is not straightforward.
However, we still wish to use abstract techniques, like adjournment.
Otherwise, one can see from the previous example that adjournment would have been possible provided the 1-recursive arguments had been in maximal abstracted form.
The idea of the following proof is therefore to 'insert' suitable -conversions in a term before -conversion, so that the adjournment becomes possible.
The common practice is to bring up such legislation just before adjournment for the day.
Note also that if no 1-recursive argument occurs, the adjournment is obviously possible (inductive types without this sort of argument are sometimes called 'algebraic' types).
In an adjournment debate it is not possible to cover adequately the whole of a complex situation of this kind.
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