adjourn

(verb)

Temporarily ending an event with intentions to complete it at another time or place.

Related Terms

Examples of adjourn in the following topics:

  • Presidential Action

    • If both houses cannot agree on a date of adjournment, the president may appoint a date for Congress to adjourn.

  • Legislative Agendas

    • An agenda is a list of meeting activities in the order in which they are to be taken up, by beginning with the call to order and ending with adjournment.

  • The First Continental Congress

    • When the first Congress adjourned, it stipulated another Congress would meet if King George III did not acquiesce to the demands set forth in the Declaration of Resolves.

  • Drafting the Final Document

    • The Convention adjourned from July 26 to August 6 to await the report of the Committee of Detail.
    • The Constitutional Convention adjourned to await the report of the Committee of Detail, which was to produce a first draft of the Constitution.

  • The Conflict-Resolution Function

    • However, if Congress is adjourned during this period, the president may veto legislation passed at the end of a congressional session simply by ignoring it.
    • It cannot be overridden by the adjourned Congress.

  • Final Efforts at Compromise

    • With the adjournment of Congress, the inauguration of Lincoln as president, and the flood of new Republican leaders to power in Washington, Democrats in Congress could no longer work towards a sectional compromise.

  • Article I

    • Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each House may provide.
    • Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
    • If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
    • Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

  • Article II

    • He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.

  • Formal Methods of Amending the Constitution

    • Article One provides that "every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives. "

  • Checks and Balances

    • When the two houses of Congress cannot agree on a date for adjournment, the president may settle the dispute.