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jury

[joor-ee]

noun

a group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them.

such a group selected according to law and sworn to inquire into or determine the facts concerning a cause or an accusation submitted to them and to render a verdict to a court. Compare grand jury, petty jury.

a group of persons chosen to adjudge prizes, awards, etc., as in a competition.

verb (used with object)

to judge or evaluate by means of a jury: All entries will be juried by a panel of professionals.

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Idiom

the jury is (still) out, a decision, determination, or opinion has yet to be rendered: The jury is still out on the President's performance.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English jurie, juree, < Old French juree oath, juridical inquiry, noun use of juree, feminine past participle of jurer to swear; compare jurat

Related forms

ju·ry·less, adjective

Usage note
See collective noun.

Example Sentences

Jury selection in the trial is expected to continue all week.

Most of those notions proved false or impractical, and the jury is still out on the rest.

In an effort to avoid prison, defendants have increasingly demanded jury trials.

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Jury selection in the trial is expected to continue all week.

Most of those notions proved false or impractical, and the jury is still out on the rest.

In an effort to avoid prison, defendants have increasingly demanded jury trials.

The jury may be out on whether you can teach old dogs new tricks.

When you review some of these wrongful conviction cases, it's clear that the jury did not do its job.

McCall was arrested and brought to trial, but was acquitted by a jury of miners.

The jury will consider each entry on its own merits and is empowered to grant as many awards as the submissions justify.

Crippen was wearing a dark suit and red tie during jury selection.

His lawyers say he is innocent, a status he maintains until a jury finds otherwise.

Criminal defendants rarely face jury trials, because they have.

Jury trials over accounting matters are unpredictable, given their technical nature and jurors' limited expertise.

Humanity, and the verdict rendered by the jury of intellectuals.

The jury is out on the balance of benefit and harm from testing for dementia that results from an incurable disease.

The heavily nuanced legal flap surrounded instructions a federal judge had given to the jury.

However courts martial are bench/judge courts, not jury courts.

They took their duties seriously, but not everyone approved women jury members.

However, until there is more concrete scientific research, the jury is still out.

Attorney's office says it can not comment on an open grand jury investigation.

But it proved impossible to distract the jury from what was said in those calls.

In short, the jury is still out on the question of whether organic foods are more nutritious.

Even some winners would be on the hook, if the jury award is much less than they had previously been offered in a settlement.

It can strengthen a jury decision or question the reliability of a contrasting jury decision.

He is determined to abolish the right of some defendants to opt for a trial by jury.

In science, the jury is never finished deliberating but a consensus, nonetheless can be reached.

These remarks alone would probably have sufficed to prejudice a jury against the defendants.

The jury is still out on whether these marine mammals also endure hot flashes.

He might also have celebrated the jury deadlocking on two charges of attempted extortion.

Incompatible parts nearly killed the crew, causing them to have to jury rig the carbon dioxide removal system.

The jury it still out on triclosan's effects on human health, but there are suggestions that they may not be good.

Serving on a jury is a thrilling prospect, but it sure messes up your calendar when you work for yourself.

Smith thinks the jury is still out, but he urges his colleagues following the amyloid theory to keep at it:.

But he had already been convicted of two murders, and a jury had sentenced him to death for one of.

Two short days on jury duty provide a slight inconvenience and a nice jolt of civic enthusiasm.

The jury is still out on the effects of microchimerism-or if there's an effect at all.

The jury before which he was tried reached its verdict on the first.

We cannot be satisfied when fallible humans are the judge and the jury to deadly trials.

The jury deadlocked on the felony charge of conspiracy.

Donovan sent the case to the jury yesterday after accusing a co-defendant of deliberately.

He added that jury instructions were confusing altogether.

If there is enough evidence, the case is sent on to trial with a jury of fellow students.

The jury found him innocent of seven of the charges, including one involving underage girls.

Barford on paid leave as a federal grand jury investigates the cable company's accounting practices.

In the other, the shooter was prosecuted, but the jury found him not guilty.

The jury is out on whether or not biofuels are really the miracle that we've hoped for.

You're not allowed to serve on a jury in a death penalty case if you refuse to consider it as a sentencing option.

Thank you for the link to the grand jury testimony.

It's fair when you say the jury will still remain out on this for a.

In the case of physics the jury is still out as there isn't enough evidence for physics to form a consensus yet.

The jury is still out on the outreach program's effectiveness.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective Nautical.

makeshift or temporary, as for an emergency: a jury mast.

Origin:
1610–20; compare jury mast (early 17th century), of obscure origin; perhaps to be identified with late Middle English i(u)were help, aid, aphetic form of Old French ajurie, derivative of aidier to aid, with -rie -ry

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World English Dictionary

jury¹ (ˈdʒʊərɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	grand jury See also petit jury a group of, usually twelve, people sworn to deliver a true verdict according to the evidence upon a case presented in a court of law
2.	a body of persons appointed to judge a competition and award prizes
3.	informal the jury is still out it has not yet been decided or agreed on

[C14: from Old French juree, from jurer to swear; see juror]

jury² (ˈdʒʊərɪ)

—*adj*
	chiefly (in combination) nautical makeshift: jury-rigged

[C17: of unknown origin]

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Word Origin & History

jury

late 14c. (attested from late 12c. in Anglo-L.), from Anglo-Fr. juree (late 13c.), from M.L. jurata "an oath, an inquest," fem. pp. of L. jurare "to swear," from jus (gen. juris) "law" (see jurist). Grand jury attested from early 15c. in Anglo-Fr. (le graund Jurre). Meaning

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"body of persons chosen to award prizes at an exhibition" is from 1851.

jury

"temporary," 1616, in jury-mast, a nautical term for a temporary mast put in place of one broken or blown away. The word is probably ult. from O.Fr. ajurie "help, relief," from L. adjutare (see aid).

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"Of all my prosecutors ... not one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer."

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