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单词 moot
释义
moot
verb[T]
formal
uk
/muːt/us
/muːt/
tosuggestsomething fordiscussion:
提出…供讨论
Theideawas first mooted aslongago as the 1840s.早在19世纪40年代，这个观点就首次被提出进行讨论了。
Hisnamewas mooted as apossiblesuccessor.作为可能的接班人，他的名字被提出讨论。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Suggestions & proposals
  • about
  • bouncesomethingoffsomeone
  • can't
  • co-sponsor
  • co-sponsorship
  • drop
  • imply
  • intimate
  • make noisesidiom
  • maybe
  • move
  • nomination
  • on the tableidiom
  • proposition
  • putsomeonetosomethingidiom
  • putsomethingin
  • putsomethingup
  • resubmission
  • resubmit
  • table
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moot
adjective
uk
/muːt/us
/muːt/

mootadjective(QUESTION)

oftendiscussedorarguedabout but having nodefiniteanswer:
有讨论余地的；未决的
It'samootpointwhetherbuildingmoreroadsreducestrafficcongestion.修建更多的路是否可以减少交通堵塞是个争论未决的问题。
notimportantor notrelevant,thereforenotworthdiscussing:
不重要的；不相关的（因而不值得讨论）
We don't have enoughmoneyto go, so it's all mootanyway.我们没有钱去，所有一切都不需要谈了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Debate & discussion
  • agent provocateur
  • bargainer
  • bat
  • bat around
  • broker
  • closure
  • cloture
  • consult
  • dialogue
  • discursive
  • parley
  • polarized
  • polemic
  • polemical
  • post-debate
  • powwow
  • provocateur
  • re-explore
  • sophistry
  • talk turkeyidiom
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mootadjective(IN LAW)

lawmainlyUSspecialized
If alegalquestionis moot, it does not need to bedealtwith, because something hashappenedthatsolvestheissue:
（法律上）无实际意义的
The court'sdecisionbecamemoot when thedefendantwasfounddead.因为被告死了，法庭的判决已无实际意义。
lawmainlyUSspecialized
imaginedorinventedas anexample, and so without anylegalimportance:
想象的，假设的（因而在法律上没有重要性）
a mootcase模拟案例
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Irrelevant
  • be neither here nor thereidiom
  • be no objectidiom
  • beside
  • enter intosomething
  • extraneous
  • irrelevance
  • irrelevant
  • irrelevantly
  • make no oddsidiom
  • neither
  • nothing
  • object
  • point
  • prejudice
  • red herring
  • tangential
  • unconnected
  • unrelated
  • wheel
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moot
noun[C]
lawspecialized
uk
/muːt/us
/muːt/
atrialordiscussiondealingwith animaginarylegalcase,performedbystudentsinexactlythe same way as arealcase, aspartoftheirlegaltraining:
（法学院学生的）模拟审判，模拟案件讨论
a mootcourt模拟法庭
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Court cases, orders & decisions
  • actionable
  • administer
  • admissibility
  • admissible
  • affidavit
  • committal
  • conveyancing
  • exhibit
  • extinguishment
  • extrajudicial
  • fatal accident inquiry
  • finding
  • gagging order
  • inquest
  • plead
  • power of attorney
  • precedent
  • pretrial
  • probate
  • provide
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(Definition ofmootfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

moot| American Dictionary

moot
adjective[not gradable]
us
/mut/

mootadjective[not gradable](NOT WORTH CONSIDERING)

law
having nopracticaluse ormeaning:
Because theclaimofnegligencewasdenied,seekinganawardfordamageswas moot.

mootadjective[not gradable](NOT DECIDED)

(of amatterbeingconsidered) that has not beendecidedand canthereforestill bediscussed:
Whether or not to make theschoolcoeducationalis still a mootpoint, and we’ll bediscussingit over the next fewmonths.
(Definition ofmootfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmoot

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When the notion of the conference was first mooted, the demand for central bank co-operation was a vague and ill-defined one.
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The opposite view is taken by those who press for rapid change to minimise the capacity for resistance to the mooted new pattern.
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When reconciliation became a possibility, it too was mooted through the women.
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The chance to convert a proposal long mooted into reality was too precious to let slip.
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A conference is mooted, keeping public officials well supplied with club-class tickets and limelight.
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The rebuilding of the cathedral, as was often the case, had been mooted some time before.
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The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time.
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If insufficient moots are organised, try to get a law teacher or barrister to judge a private one for yourself and friends.
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While such proposals were being mooted, it is no wonder licensed dealers were still in demand.
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All the various approaches to statutor y interpretation mooted above can, with different degrees of emphasis, be understood as paying regard to the enactors' intentions.
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The success of compulsory dipping, mooted since the 1870s and finally introduced in 1895, depended on fencing to quarantine clean flocks.
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Two variables have been mooted as possible determinants of success in making plural reference.
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As moots fell into desuetude, the inns' educative function also fell into abeyance.
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Proposals for projects in other sectors, like agriculture, transport, and nuclear energy, had been mooted, however, and debated on and off.
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The first mooted no principles, but was a series of improvised measures, often local, that nowhere changed the fundaments of the state.
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