docket
Meanings
Plural: dockets
Noun
- (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- A summary; a brief digest.
- A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
- A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
- An agenda of things to be done.
- A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
- A receipt.
Verb
- place on the docket for legal action
- "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried"
- make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
- To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
- To label a parcel, etc.
- To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
- To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
Origin / Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.
Scrabble Score: 13
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Words With Friends Score: 14
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