Dictionary

prorogue en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /pɹə(ʊ)ˈɹəʊɡ/ (UK)
• /pɹoʊˈɹoʊɡ/ (US)

Etymology

From Old French proroger, proroguer, from Latin prōrogō (“prolong, defer”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.
   • On 9 September, when Parliament was prorogued until 14 October [later reversed by the Supreme Court], spelling the end of 12 pieces of legislation, it emerged that the High Speed Rail (West Midlands-Crewe) Bill was one of only three bills which will be carried over into the new parliamentary session. 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
2. (archaic, transitive) To defer.
3. (obsolete) To prolong or extend.
   • The King settled to prorogue Parliament until the Christmas holidays, and to do nothing else for the present. 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business:
   • Mirth[…]prorogues life, whets the wit, makes the body young, lively, and fit for any manner of employment. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv:

Forms

Coordinates

adjourn · dissolve

Deriveds

unprorogued · proroguement · prorogate · prorogator · prorogation

Synonyms

prolong (to prolong) · extend (to prolong) · defer (to defer) · postpone (to defer) · protract (to prolong)

Translations (21)

es prorrogar (to prolong or extend) · fr proroger (to prolong or extend) · fr proroger (to suspend a parliamentary session) · de vertagen (to suspend a parliamentary session) · nl ouitbreiden (to prolong or extend) · pl odraczać (to suspend a parliamentary session) · nl opschuiven (to defer) · nl verdagen (to suspend a parliamentary session) · de aufschieben (to defer) · pl wstrzymać (to defer) · nl uitstellen (to defer) · nl opschorten (to suspend a parliamentary session) · nl verlengen (to prolong or extend) · de verlängern (to prolong or extend) · pl odroczyć (to suspend a parliamentary session) · es prorrogar (to suspend a parliamentary session) · de verschieben (to defer) · nl schorsen (to suspend a parliamentary session) · it prorogare (to suspend a parliamentary session) · pl odłożyć (to defer) · pt prorrogar (to prolong or extend)