docket

English

Alternative forms

• docquet (archaic)

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.ɪt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.kɪt/

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔk.ɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪt

Noun

docket (plural dockets)

1. (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
2. (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
3. (law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
4. An agenda of things to be done.
5. A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
6. (Australia) A receipt.

Derived terms

• on the docket
• rocket docket
• shadow docket
• stet docket

 

Translations

short entry of the proceedings of a court

• German: Prozessregister n
• Italian: registro sentenze m, ruolo (it) m

schedule of cases in a court

• German: Prozessliste f
• Italian: ruolino m
• Polish: wokanda (pl) f

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Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} იარლიყი (iarliq̇i)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} duillín m

See also

• receipt

Verb

docket (third-person singular simple present dockets, present participle docketing, simple past and past participle docketed)

1. (transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
2. (transitive) To label a parcel, etc.

   to docket goods

3. (transitive) 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

   • February 5 1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774

     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

4. (transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.

   judgments regularly docketed

Derived terms

• docketing software

References

“docket”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tocked