docket

noun
/ˈdɒk.ɪt/UK/ˈdɑ.kɪt/CA/ˈdɔk.ɪt/

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.

Definitions

  1. A summary

    A summary; a brief digest.

  2. A short entry of the proceedings of a court

    A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.

  3. A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.

    • And I think it’s probably fair to say that all of the more recent cases that are on the interim/emergency/whatever-we-want-to-call-it-these-days dockets, so they’re still in progress.
  4. + 7 more definitions
    1. An agenda of things to be done.

    2. A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.

    3. A receipt.

    4. To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.

    5. To label a parcel, etc.

      • to docket goods
    6. To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to…

      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 docket letters and papers
      • Whatever letters and papers you keep , docket and tie them up in their respective classes , so that you may instantly have recourse to any one
    7. To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.

      • judgments regularly docketed

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