0 to suggest something for discussion:
1 often discussed or argued about but having no definite answer:
2 If a legal question is moot, it does not need to be dealt with, because something has happened that solves the issue:
3 a 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:
a moot court
5 (of a matter being considered) that has not been decided and can therefore still be discussed:
Whether or not to make the school coeducational is still a moot point, and we’ll be discussing it over the next few months.
When the notion of the conference was first mooted, the demand for central bank co-operation was a vague and ill-defined one.
The opposite view is taken by those who press for rapid change to minimise the capacity for resistance to the mooted new pattern.
When reconciliation became a possibility, it too was mooted through the women.
The chance to convert a proposal long mooted into reality was too precious to let slip.
A conference is mooted, keeping public officials well supplied with club-class tickets and limelight.
The rebuilding of the cathedral, as was often the case, had been mooted some time before.
The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time.
If insufficient moots are organised, try to get a law teacher or barrister to judge a private one for yourself and friends.
