MOOT


Meaning of MOOT in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

moot court

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

point

Whether this input has made a significant impact on the pattern of activity is a moot point .

It is a moot point whether hierarchies exist outside our own thought processes.

Whether they have appeared as part of the C. and A.G.'s audit is a moot point .

It's a moot point whether this is censorship.

Whether the law should be this is a moot point .

Quite how long Lord Young was proposing to delay publication is a moot point .

It is a moot point whether a supranational authority is also required.

This is a moot point which requires further study before it can be resolved.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Even if Proposition 559 passes, it will become moot if the Supreme Court says it's unconstitutional.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It's a moot point whether this is censorship.

It is a moot point whether hierarchies exist outside our own thought processes.

Quite how long Lord Young was proposing to delay publication is a moot point.

Whether the law should be this is a moot point.

Whether they have appeared as part of the C. and A.G.'s audit is a moot point.

Whether this input has made a significant impact on the pattern of activity is a moot point.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

idea

He had mooted the idea of becoming a teacher but made no serious attempts to do anything about it.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A final version has already been mooted.

A new approach was being mooted in the heaving undergrowth of ultra-left literature.

As Jubilee 2000 draws to a close next month, climate change has been mooted as a possible successor issue.

It was mooted the association could offer a unique police view of current problems.

Misha F is against pets in principle, but admitted to having three cats and mooted a Chekhov sequel, Three Cats.

Once the trip was mooted, there were weeks of indecision about who would go and when.

Paris was mooted but when Henrietta could not find her passport they eloped to Edinburgh.

Such is the Delors-led demand for uniformity that even this was mooted as a possibility.

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