(juries)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
In a court of law, the ~ 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 ~ convicted Mr Hampson of all offences.
...the tradition of trial by ~.
N-COUNT-COLL: also by N
2.
A ~ is a group of people who choose the winner of a competition.
I am not surprised that the Booker Prize ~ included it on their shortlist.
= panel
N-COUNT-COLL
3.
If you say that the ~ is out or that the ~ 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 ~ is out on whether or not this is true...
PHRASE: oft PHR on wh/n