From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
When all the items on the agenda had been discussed, the meeting was ______
dismissed
postponed
adjourned
dissolved
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DEFINITIONS
Adjourn: break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.
Dismiss: to end deliberately.
Ordinarily, adjourned should be the right answer since it mostly used in relation to meetings. But then, Adjourn implies that the meeting will resume at a later date , which is not so.
And if we examine the question, it says that “all the items on the agenda had been discussed”. That is, there was no intention of resuming later since every items had already been discussed.
Dismiss does a better job of showing that the meeting has been ended finally/ concluded.
I hope this helps...
Please change this answer. The appropriate answer is D - adjourned.
That's the obvious language used when meetings end and are moved to a later date
