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prorogue
 
SYLLABICATION:pro·rogue
PRONUNCIATION:  pr-rg
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: pro·rogued, pro·rogu·ing, pro·rogues
1. To discontinue a session of (a parliament, for example). 2. To postpone; defer.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English prorogen, from Old French proroguer, to postpone, from Latin prrogre : pro-, forward; see pro–1 + rogre, to ask; see reg- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:proro·gation —NOUN
 
 
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