Docket
//ˈdɑ.kɪt// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A summary; a brief digest. obsolete
- 2 a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to wordnet
- 3 A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
- 4 (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 An agenda of things to be done.
- 7 A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
- 8 A receipt. Australia
Verb
- 1 To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. transitive
- 2 make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list wordnet
- 3 To label a parcel, etc. transitive
"to docket goods"
- 4 place on the docket for legal action wordnet
- 5 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. transitive
"to docket letters and papers"
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- 6 To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book. transitive
"judgments regularly docketed"
Example
More examples""Well," she asked her secretary, "what's on the docket for today?""
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.