To have a pause or rest during a formal meeting or trial.

It means that the money is still due. It simply means that the transaction is not complete.

A situation in which a business or a person is unable to pay what they owe

To make something smaller, less noticeable, etc., or to become smaller, less noticeable

A usually public sale of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids for each thing, until the thing is sold to the person who will pay most.

A different or less direct route to a place that is used to avoid a problem or to visit somewhere or do something on the way.

To show your ticket at an airport so that you can be told where you will be sitting and so that your bags can be put on the aircraft.

A meeting at which people are given information or instructions

To connect a piece of electrical equipment with wires so that it will work