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# juror

«juror» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the ordinary adult citizens on a jury, the group…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a juror, jurors)

### meaning for a pupil

(law) A juror is one of the ordinary adult citizens on a jury, the group who listen to a trial in court and decide if the accused person is guilty or not guilty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Citizenship and law lessons: in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, adults can be called to be jurors; they must be fair and listen to the evidence. It tells the reader about a trial.

### examples

- Twelve jurors listened to the trial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/#x1)
- The juror took notes during the evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/#x2)
- Jurors must not talk about the case outside court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/#x3)
- Mum was called to be a juror. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/#x4)
- The jurors decided the man was not guilty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/#x5)
- Each juror promised to be fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/#x6)

### note

Plural: jurors. The group is a «jury». Spelling ends «-or». Jurors are ordinary people, not lawyers.

### In the corpora

- [The jurors are writing down their own names, in case they forget them before the end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/5/)
- [Some jurors write «important» and some «unimportant»; Alice thinks «it doesn't matter a bit».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «juror» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juror/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.