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noun

docket

(law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities

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Six example sentences with docket, each labelled with its topic.

  • Three trials were pushed to autumn because the judge's docket had no open week left before the summer recess.

    Law

  • Voters rarely notice it, but the state supreme court's docket for the coming term shapes more policy than most bills do.

    Politics

  • The documentary follows one clerk who prints the docket each morning and watches which cases actually get called.

    Movies

  • The county's 1790s docket survives in the archive, listing unpaid debts, boundary disputes, and one stolen cow.

    History

  • The firm's lawyers check the court docket every morning, since the bankruptcy hearing could be called on any open day.

    Business

  • The novel opens with a clerk reading the day's docket aloud, and each name on the list becomes a chapter.

    Literature

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