All 10 Uses of

docket
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Nineteen Minutes

By the time she backed her car out of the garage, her head was already focused on the decision she had to write that afternoon; the number of arraignments the clerk would have stuffed onto her docket; the motions that would have fallen like shadows across her desk between Friday afternoon and this morning.†
Chpt 1

She could cut through the clerk's office to her chambers, and if the planets were aligned, maybe even onto the bench without causing a delay in the docket.†
Chpt 1

She dumped her purse in chambers, shrugged into her robe, and took five minutes to drink her coffee and review the docket.†
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She rearranged her docket so that she was home when Josie got there; she left legal briefs in the office instead of bringing them home to read on weekends; every night, over dinner, they talked-not just chatter, but real conversation: about why To Kill a Mockingbird might very well be the best book ever written; about how you could tell if you'd fallen in love; even about Josie's father.†
Chpt 1

By the time Diana reached the docket board to check which judge was sitting on the Houghton arraignment, Jordan McAfee was already standing there.†
Chpt 1

To be honest, Jordan had been just as shocked to see Cormier's name on the docket board as the prosecutor had been, but he wasn't about to tell Diana.†
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Definitions:

(1) (docket)
a list of things or adding something to the list -- especially cases to be tried in court or items to discuss
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely, docket may be used in various ways to indicate identifying or summarizing something or the document so created -- such as:
- abstracting a document; or the resultant abstract
- identifying (possibly with very brief summary) a legal case; or the resultant writing
- labeling a package -- possibly with listed contents or instructions; or the resultant label