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Adjourn vs Holdover - What's the difference?

adjourn | holdover |

As a verb adjourn

is to postpone.

As a noun holdover is

something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time''.

adjourn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To postpone.
  • The trial was adjourned for a week.
  • To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
  • * Barrow
  • It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
  • To end or suspend an event.
  • The court will adjourn for lunch.
  • (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.
  • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

    See also

    * adjournment

    holdover

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.''
  • :That policy is a holdover from days of punch card data entry.
  • The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop over the distance to the target.
  • :This rangefinder not only measures the distance to the target, but also provides a digital readout of the inches of holdover at that distance.