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Adjournment vs Discontinuance - What's the difference?

adjournment | discontinuance |

As nouns the difference between adjournment and discontinuance

is that adjournment is the state of being adjourned while discontinuance is the occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an incomplete ending.

adjournment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being adjourned.
    • Adjournment didn't come a minute too soon for those of us who needed the toilet.
  • The action of adjourning.
    • At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
  • (rhetoric) Ampliatio.

    • See also

    * ("adjournment" on Wikipedia)

    discontinuance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an incomplete ending.

    • Synonyms

    * discontinuation * termination

    Antonyms

    * continuance