English Dictionary

moot

verb

To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. / To discuss or debate. / (US) To make or declare irrelevant. / To argue or plead in a supposed case. / (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.

The students mooted the idea of starting a recycling program.

意味（1）

To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.

A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.

意味（2）

To discuss or debate.

a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country

意味（3）

(US) To make or declare irrelevant.

意味（4）

To argue or plead in a supposed case.

There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.

意味（5）

(regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.

'Tis no boot to moot again of it.

意味（6）

(Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.

He could not moot the words.