docket in English dictionary

  • docket

    Meanings and definitions of "docket"

    • (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
    • (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
    • (law) 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.
    • (transitive) To make an entry in a docket.
    • (transitive) To label a parcel etc.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A summary; a brief digest.
    • noun
      (law)
      A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
    • noun
      (law)
      A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
    • noun
      An agenda of things to be done.
    • noun
      A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
    • noun
      (Australian) A receipt.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make an entry in a docket.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To label a parcel etc.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      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.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
    • docket (e.g. cash register)
    • noun
      a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
    • noun
      (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
    • verb
      make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
    • verb
      place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried"

    Synonyms of "docket" in English dictionary

    put, summarise, agenda are the top synonyms of "docket" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of docket

    • docket ( third-person singular simple present dockets, present participle docketing, simple past and past participle docketed)
    • docket ( plural  dockets)
    • docket (plural dockets)
    • docket (third-person singular simple present dockets, present participle docketing, simple past and past participle docketed)

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