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单词 moot
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mootverb [ T ]

uk/muːt/us/muːt/formal

to suggest something for discussion:

The idea was first mooted as long ago as the 1840s.
His name was mooted as a possible successor.

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Suggestions & proposals

  • about
  • float
  • get at sth
  • grab
  • hint
  • how about...? idiom
  • how does... grab you? idiom
  • how/what about...? idiom
  • it wouldn't hurt you to do sth idiom
  • might
  • offer
  • on the table idiom
  • point sb towards/in the direction of sth idiom
  • posit
  • postulate
  • proposal
  • propose
  • put
  • put ideas into sb's head idiom
  • table

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mootadjective

uk/muːt/us/muːt/

moot adjective (QUESTION)

often discussed or argued about but having no definite answer:

It's a moot point whether building more roads reduces traffic congestion.

not important or not relevant, therefore not worth discussing:

We don't have enough money to go, so it's all moot anyway.

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Debate & discussion

  • arena
  • compare
  • conciliate
  • dialectic
  • float around
  • fly
  • fly around
  • get down to business idiom
  • kick sth around
  • negotiable
  • negotiate
  • parley
  • reason with sb
  • reasoning
  • sophistry
  • speak
  • talk sth out
  • talk sth over
  • toss
  • weigh in

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moot adjective (IN LAW)

mainly US specialized law If a legal question is moot, it does not need to be dealt with, because something has happened that solves the issue:

The court's decision became moot when the defendant was found dead.

mainly US specialized law imagined or invented as an example, and so without any legal importance:

a moot case

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Irrelevant

  • a fifth/third wheel idiom
  • be neither here nor there idiom
  • be no object idiom
  • beside
  • enter
  • enter into sth
  • immaterial
  • irrelevance
  • irrelevant
  • make no odds idiom
  • neither
  • nothing
  • object
  • odds
  • picture
  • prejudice
  • red herring
  • tangential
  • unconnected
  • wheel

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mootnoun [ C ]

uk/muːt/us/muːt/specialized

a trial or discussion dealing with an imaginary legal case, performed by students in exactly the same way as a real case, as part of their legal training:

a moot court

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Court cases, orders & decisions

  • actionable
  • administer
  • admissible
  • affidavit
  • affiliation order
  • bail
  • bale
  • defend
  • inadmissible
  • injunction
  • judgment
  • judicature
  • judicial
  • plea
  • remedy
  • retrial
  • Rex
  • ruling
  • separation
  • sequester

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