Usually means: Debatable issue with no resolution.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. moot point: Collins English Dictionary
  2. moot point: Wordnik
  3. moot point: Wiktionary
  4. Moot point: Dictionary.com
  5. Moot Point: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. moot point: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Moot point: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. Moot point: World Wide Words

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. moot point: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. moot point: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Moot point: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Moot point: Medical dictionary

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  1. moot point: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (moot point)

noun:  An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found; originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.
noun:  An issue regarded as potentially debatable, but no longer practically applicable. Although the idea may still be worth debating and exploring academically, and such discussion may be useful for addressing similar issues in the future, the idea has been rendered irrelevant for the present issue.

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