moot court
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7.4
- noun
- /mut kɔrt/
- Jargon
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tribunal simulado
- Last semester, I participated in a moot court competition where we simulated a real trial.
- moot court competition
- international moot court
I used a lot of those skills in mock trial and moot court, where it went on to win a couple of national tournaments.
- I used a lot of those skills in mock trial and moot court, where it went on to win a couple of national tournaments.
- I did both moot court and mock trial in law school and while moot court is a lot of fun and it's great, I thought mock trial was way more fun.
Examples
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I feel like I'm back in moot court.
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I used a lot of those skills in mock trial and moot court, where it went on to win a couple of national tournaments.
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We're doing a moot court.
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Save it for the moot court.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'd like to talk about your moot-court experience.
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A few weeks later, he took part in the law school's moot court finals.
Academic text (1996) -
Most of my classmates, male and female, hated litigation and the required moot court work.
Blog text (4) -
Our fourth program is the sponsorship of an international moot court competition called the Niagara Moot Court.
Academic text (1997) -
Jason Harrow argued his team to victory in Harvard Law School's prestigious moot court competition.
Blog text (15) -
The focus in many clinical and moot court programs is on courtroom advocacy, which constitutes a small fraction of lawyers' work.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
2
9.3
A practice court case that law students argue
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'moot' (a mock or training trial) combined with 'court' (a forum for legal cases) yields 'a mock court' with no idiomatic shift. Therefore a B1 learner who knows both constituent senses can reliably infer the MWE meaning, although in practice the word 'moot' can be less frequent or polysemous for learners who lack that specific sense.
Etymology
Moot court comes from an old word moot, meaning a meeting to discuss ideas rather than make a real decision, and court, a place for legal cases. So teachers used this idea to set up a 'mock court' where students practice arguing pretend cases, and today a moot court is a practice court for law students.