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Docket

//ˈdɑ.kɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A summary; a brief digest. obsolete
  2. 2
    a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to wordnet
  3. 3
    A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
  4. 4
    (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    An agenda of things to be done.
  2. 7
    A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
  3. 8
    A receipt. Australia
Verb
  1. 1
    To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. transitive
  2. 2
    make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list wordnet
  3. 3
    To label a parcel, etc. transitive

    "to docket goods"

  4. 4
    place on the docket for legal action wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book. transitive

    "judgments regularly docketed"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.

Etymology 2

Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.

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