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The art of ending a meeting without ending the argument.
means A temporary break or postponement of a meeting, session, or proceeding to a later time.
from Traces back through French ajourner to the Latin phrase ad diurnum — 'to a [specified] day.' Diurnum comes from dies, meaning 'day' (the same root behind 'diary' and 'journal'). So to adjourn something is, quite literally, to push it to another day — a word built from the simple bureaucratic act of consulting the calendar instead of finishing the fight.
- not resolution
- Postpones the fight, never settles it
- courtrooms love it
- Judges use it to buy overnight homework time
- parliament's favorite word
- Sessions adjourn, bills don't die, just nap
- etymology
- From French ajourner, meaning to another day