JURY


Meaning of JURY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒʊəri ]

( juries)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

In a court of law, the jury is the group of people who have been chosen from the general public to listen to the facts about a crime and to decide whether the person accused is guilty or not.

The jury convicted Mr Hampson of all offences.

...the tradition of trial by jury.

N-COUNT-COLL : also by N

2.

A jury is a group of people who choose the winner of a competition.

I am not surprised that the Booker Prize jury included it on their shortlist.

= panel

N-COUNT-COLL

3.

If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.

The jury is out on whether or not this is true...

PHRASE : oft PHR on wh / n

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