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Adjournment vs Postpone - What's the difference?

adjournment | postpone |

As a noun adjournment

is the state of being adjourned.

As a verb postpone is

to delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

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)

    postpone

    English

    Verb

    (postpon)
  • To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}

    Synonyms

    * adjourn, defer, delay, forestay, procrastinate, put off, put on ice, stay, suspend

    Antonyms

    * advance * hasten * prepone (India )