jury
/ˈd͡ʒʊɹi/ nom B2En français : jury
- A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.
- A group of judges in a competition.
- The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.
Pluriel juries
Dans la bibliothèque
“Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to law: _I_ will prosecute _you_.—Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.’ Said the mouse to the cur, ‘Such a trial, dear sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath.’ ‘I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,’ Said cunning old Fury: ‘I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.’”
“And that’s the jury-box,” thought Alice, “and those twelve creatures,” (she was obliged to say “creatures,” you see, because some of them were animals, and some were birds,) “I suppose they are the jurors.” She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all.
However, “jury-men” would have done just as well.
“Consider your verdict,” the King said to the jury.
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