0 past simple and past participle of moot
1 to suggest something for discussion:
Indeed, the ' privatisation ' of water has been shrouded in secrecy since the idea was first mooted in the early 1990s.
When reconciliation became a possibility, it too was mooted through the women.
The opposite view is taken by those who press for rapid change to minimise the capacity for resistance to the mooted new pattern.
When the notion of the conference was first mooted, the demand for central bank co-operation was a vague and ill-defined one.
A conference is mooted, keeping public officials well supplied with club-class tickets and limelight.
The success of compulsory dipping, mooted since the 1870s and finally introduced in 1895, depended on fencing to quarantine clean flocks.
The first mooted no principles, but was a series of improvised measures, often local, that nowhere changed the fundaments of the state.
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.
