jury, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

jury (juries plural )

1 n-count-coll In a court of law, the jury 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.
also by N
The jury convicted Mr Hampson of all offences., ...the tradition of trial by jury.

2 n-count-coll A jury is a group of people who choose the winner of a competition. (=panel)
I am not surprised that the Booker Prize jury included it on their shortlist.

3 If you say that the jury is out or that the jury 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 jury is out phrase oft PHR on wh/n
The jury is out on whether or not this is true...

grand jury (grand juries plural )A grand jury is a jury, usually in the United States, which considers a criminal case in order to decide if someone should be tried in a court of law. n-count
They have already given evidence before a grand jury in Washington.