noun
- brief written summaries of legal documents or proceedings
- lists of cases to be tried by a court
- labels or tags attached to items for identification
Usage: legal
Usage: legal
verb
- makes a brief entry of proceedings in a legal record
- attaches a label or summary to something
Usage: legal
Examples
- The court clerk prepared dockets summarizing each case.
- The judge reviewed the trial dockets for next week.
- Shipping dockets were attached to all the packages.
- The attorney dockets all important case information.
- She dockets each file with relevant details.
- The busy court had full dockets every day.
- Workers placed dockets on inventory items for tracking.