Moot

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Subject to debate; arguable or unsettled.
  • adjective. Of no practical importance; irrelevant.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Not presenting an open legal question, as a result of the occurrence of some event definitively resolving the issue, or the absence of a genuine case or controversy.
  • adjective. Of no legal significance; hypothetical.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To bring up (a subject) for discussion or debate. synonym: broach.
  • transitive verb. To discuss or debate.
  • transitive verb. To render (a subject or issue) irrelevant.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To argue (a case) in a moot court.
  • transitive verb. To render (a legal issue or question) irrelevant.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The discussion or argument of a hypothetical case by law students as an exercise.
  • noun. A hypothetical case used for such a discussion or argument.
  • noun. An ancient English meeting, especially a representative meeting of the freemen of a shire.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to or connected with debatable questions; subject to discussion; discussed or debated; debatable; unsettled.
  • noun. An obsolete variant of mot.
  • To debate; discuss; argue for and against; introduce or submit for discussion.
  • Specifically
  • In law, to plead or argue (a cause or supposed cause) merely by way of exercise or practice.
  • To speak; utter.
  • To argue; dispute.
  • To plead or argue a supposed cause.
  • To dig.
  • noun. In ship-building:
  • noun. A ring used to gage the diameter of treenails.
  • noun. A piece of hard wood bound with iron at both ends, used in making blocks.
  • noun. A meeting; a formal assembly.
  • noun. The place of such a meeting.
  • noun. In early English history, a court formed by assembling the men of the village or tun, the hundred, or the kingdom, or their representatives.
  • noun. Dispute; debate; discussion; specifically, in law, an argument on a hypothetical case by way of practice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb. See 1st mot.
  • transitive verb. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
  • transitive verb. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
  • transitive verb. To render inconsequential, as having no effect on the practical outcome; to render academic.
  • noun. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition.
  • noun. A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
  • noun. a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question.
  • noun. a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases.
  • noun. a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.
  • noun. to render moot{2}; to moot{3}.
  • noun. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  • intransitive verb. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  • adjective. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
  • adjective. Of purely theoretical or academic interest; having no practical consequence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  • adjective. Having no practical impact or relevance.
  • adjective. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  • Word Usage
    "The Clintons would rather prefer to spend their time for the more noble cause of working with the Bush family to reduce AIDS and poverty around the globe than spend countless hours in moot litigation launched by members of the GOP behind the scenes."
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    case  causa  cause  lawsuit  suit  
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    Beirut  Bute  Butte  Jute  Root  
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    mooted  mooting  mootness  moots