Meaning of jury in English

jury

/ˈdʒʊə.ri/ us

/ˈdʒʊr.i/

a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty, or if a claim has been proved:

members of the jury

The jury has/have been unable to return a verdict (= reach a decision).

serve on a jury Police officers aren't usually allowed to serve on a jury.

sit on a jury Only one black person sat on the jury.

a group of people chosen to decide the winner of a competition

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The jury delivered a verdict of not guilty.
The members of the jury left the court with a police escort.
Not surprisingly, the jury found them both guilty.
The decision about whether he is innocent or guilty rests with the jury.
He went free because the jury decided there was a reasonable doubt about his guilt.

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the jury is out

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jury | American Dictionary

jury

noun [ C/U ]

/ˈdʒʊr·i/

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a group of people who have been chosen to listen to the facts of a trial in a law court and to decide whether a person is guilty or not guilty, or whether a claim has been proved:

[ U ] a trial by jury/a jury trial

[ C ] My husband served on a jury in a criminal case a few months ago.

A jury is also a group of people chosen to judge a competition:

[ C ] The jury chose an unexpected winner for the literary prize.

Idiom

the jury is still out

(Definition of jury from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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jury

noun [ C ]

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/ˈdʒʊəri/ us

plural juries

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( US also jury panel)

a group of people who have been chosen to listen to the facts in a court action and decide whether a person is guilty or not guilty or whether a claim has been proved:

He was flanked by two prison officers as he awaited the jury's verdict.

Last year a California jury awarded $172m to staff who had been forced to work through meal breaks.

a jury acquits/convicts/deliberates The jury convicted seven of the men of conspiracy, but acquitted nine others.

A series of suspicious phone calls took place between the defendants, a jury heard yesterday.

the jury is out (on sth)

used to say that people have not yet decided whether something is good or bad:

The jury is still out on whether she is the right person to revive the company's fortunes.

Examples of jury

jury

Discussion of juries is particularly compelling, since they were at the heart of the issue of proof.

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Within five years he was acting as the jury's foreman.

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However, grand juries were not exclusively made up of the largest landowners ; nor were all the major proprietors in a county appointed as jurors.

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They acknowledge that juries make mistakes from time to time.

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In theory, that difficulty could be resolved by having judges instruct juries about the meaning of reasonable doubt.

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The study ranges citizens' juries at the top, followed in descending order by deliberative polls, citizens' panels, public meetings, focus groups, and opinion polls.

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Evidently - scientists, historians, judges and juries ask this question about their hypotheses.

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Scores ranging from 1-12 are awarded to each performance by national juries and, where possible, by audience televoting.

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They did not find student juries to be more lenient.

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The admission of spectral evidence at the indictments served the principle of presumptive evidence similar to a grand jury's inquiry into probable cause.

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Instead, judges and juries realize the press of compassion on the emotional state of the spouse or companion, and lessen the sentence.

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The emphasis of discussion of these notions is on the states of mind involved in the judge's or jury's determining of the facts.

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The grand jury's no bill says merely that there is insufficient evidence to indict.

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Whether this is true is unclear; however, more important, this particular narrative made sense to judges and juries, and defendants capitalized on this narrative.

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While the leading landowners of the county continued to play a part at the assizes, they were conspicuous by their absence from the sessions juries.

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grand jury investigation

Some progress was being made, but much has now been dissipated as a result of the grand jury investigation and later developments.

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jury consultant

Incidentally, the prosecutor fired her court-appointed jury consultant early in the process.

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jury decision

Hence, jury decision rules can be well-described as semi-conjunctive, and only unanimity rule will facilitate social consistency.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

陪審團, （競賽的）裁判團，評審委員會…

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