docket

1. 1.

   place on the docket for legal action

   “Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried”

   Broaderput

   law

2. 2.

   make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list

   Broadersum up

   law

Other forms of docket

plural

dockets·

past tense

docketted·

present participle

docketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about docket

What does docket mean?

docket means "(law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in docket?

docket has 2 syllables: doc-ket. The stress falls on "doc". In IPA it is /ˈdɑkət/.

What is another word for docket?

Close synonyms include agenda, schedule. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is docket a common word?

docket is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.