To adjourn means to suspend until a later stated time. Law In law, adjournment means to suspend proceedings to another time or place, or to end them. For example Counsel wasn't prepared for trial, so she requested an adjournment of the trial until a later date. Parliamentary Procedure Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised a deliberative assembly adjourns when it's finished with business for the time being. If no time or method has been fixed to the assembly, adjournment has the effect of t… (More on Adjournment)