Docket

Quick meaning: Docket is a noun meaning (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
2. An agenda of things to be done.
3. A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
4. (Australia) A receipt.
5. (transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
6. (transitive) To label a parcel, etc.
7. (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.

Example Sentences

to docket goods

to docket letters and papers

judgments regularly docketed

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

Word Forms

• dockets
• docquet
• docketing
• docketed

Synonyms for docket

Depending on context, synonyms include agendum, agenda, schedule.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agenda, schedule, agendum, register, registry, account.

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