docket

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  1. noun Law A calendar of the cases awaiting action in a court.
  2. noun Law A brief entry of the court proceedings in a legal case.
  3. noun Law The book containing such entries.
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  • Only a week after being introduced, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's latest hours of work docket is being appealed in an effort to put it out-of-service before it can be implemented.
  • Hecht first appeared on the bench Feb. 2, but his docket has been light because Pierce County prosecutors have declined to bring cases before him while the criminal allegations play out. —  The News Tribune - Tacoma - Homepage
  • But right now, probably a third to a half of our docket is dealing with housing issues in some way. —  Blog updates
  • More than 500 cases appeared on the docket, an unusually high number even in a county with close to 6,200 men and women on probation. —  News & Record Article Feed
  • Next up on the docket is the plucky BCS hopefuls from Mormania traveling to face Ty Willingham's Washington Huskies on Fox Sports Net. —  Deadspin
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docket:   dockets ·  docketed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English doggett, summary, digest.

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  1. Formerly sometimes spelled docquet (as if of French origin), and with altered form dogget; from late Middle English docket; apparently from dock, v., + diminutive -et (less prob. from Middle English docket, variant of docked, past participle of dock, v., and thus literally ‘a thing cut short,’ ‘an abridgment’).
  2. from docket, n.
 

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/ˈdɑkɛt/
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