mootverb [ T ]
uk/muːt/us/muːt/formalto suggest something for discussion:
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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:
not important or not relevant, therefore not worth discussing:
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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:
mainly US specialized law imagined or invented as an example, and so without any legal importance:
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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/specializeda 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:
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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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