adjournment Syllabification: (ad·journ·ment)Pronunciation: /əˈjərnmənt/Translate adjournment | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of adjournment noun an act or period of adjourning or being adjourned:she sought an adjournment of the trial I suggest we have a short adjournmentadjournment in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of adjournment in the British & World English dictionary