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# jury

«jury» in Mova's school dictionary: **A group of ordinary people (often twelve) who listen to a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jury, juries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A group of ordinary people (often twelve) who listen to a trial in court and decide if someone is guilty or not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#m1)

2) A group of people who judge a competition and choose the winner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and stories: a jury listens to a court case and gives a verdict. At school: a jury of judges picks the best poem or science project. Phrases: on the jury, jury duty, the jury is out (people have not decided yet).

### examples

- The jury decided the man was not guilty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#x1)
- Twelve people sat on the jury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#x2)
- My mum was called for jury duty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#x3)
- A jury of teachers judged the art competition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#x4)
- The jury is still out on whether the new game is any good (idiom). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#x5)
- The judge thanked the jury for their hard work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jury/#x6)

### note

Countable; plural juries. A jury can take a singular or plural verb in UK English ("the jury is" / "the jury are"); US English uses singular. A member is a juror. In maths problems, a jury often has 12 members.

### In the corpora

- [The jury writes down some of each.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/4/)
- [«Let the jury consider their verdict,» says the King, for about the twentieth time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/5/)
- [In England and Wales a jury in a serious criminal trial is twelve ordinary adults; in Scotland it is fifteen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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