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juror

[ joor-er, -awr ]

noun

  1. one of a group of persons sworn to deliver a verdict in a case submitted to them; member of a jury.
  2. one of the panel from which a jury is selected.
  3. one of a group of people who judge a competition.
  4. a person who has taken an oath or sworn allegiance.


juror

/ ˈʊəə /

noun

  1. a member of a jury
  2. a person whose name is included on a panel from which a jury is selected
  3. a person who takes an oath
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of juror1

1250–1300; Middle English jurour < Anglo-French (compare Old French jureur ), equivalent to Old French jur ( er ) to swear (< Latin ū ) + -our -or 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of juror1

C14: from Anglo-French jurour, from Old French jurer to take an oath, from Latin ū
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Louis Ahearne told jurors he believed he was there to commit a burglary or robbery of a drug dealer's house.

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Seton Hunt told jurors that this was not a complicated case.

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A man who served on the jury of a high-profile murder trial has said more needs to be done to support jurors who are exposed to disturbing, graphic evidence.

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By the 4th century BCE, Athenian orators even quoted lines from the tragedians in court, knowing that jurors “liked quotations from tragedy,” in one scholar’s words.

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All nine jurors upheld a district court ruling demanding his return, acknowledging his deportation to the Center for Terrorism Confinement, or CECOT, was unlawful.

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