docket
noun/ˈdɒkɪt/
/ˈdɑːkɪt/
- (British English, business) a document or label that shows what is in a package, which goods have been delivered, which jobs have been done, etc.
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- (North American English) (also docket sheet)a list of cases to be dealt with in a particular court
- (North American English) a list of items to be discussed at a meeting
Word Originlate 15th cent.: perhaps from dock ‘cut short’. The word originally denoted a short summary or abstract; hence, in the early 18th cent., ‘a document giving particulars of a consignment’.
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