moot
verb/muːt/
/muːt/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they moot | /muːt/ /muːt/ |
| he / she / it moots | /muːts/ /muːts/ |
| past simple mooted | /ˈmuːtɪd/ /ˈmuːtɪd/ |
| past participle mooted | /ˈmuːtɪd/ /ˈmuːtɪd/ |
| -ing form mooting | /ˈmuːtɪŋ/ /ˈmuːtɪŋ/ |
- to suggest an idea for people to discuss synonym propose, put forward
- be mooted The plan was first mooted at last week’s meeting.
- It had been mooted that there should be a study period after school.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMoot is used with these nouns as the object:- idea
Word OriginOld English mōt ‘assembly ’or‘ meeting’ and mōtian ‘to converse’, of Germanic origin; related to meet. The adjective (originally an attributive noun use: see moot court) dates from the mid 16th cent.; the current verb sense dates from the mid 17th cent.
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