juries
- 1Plural of jury.
Several juries deadlocked before the related cases were finally resolved.
Local juries often reflect the demographic makeup of their communities.
Note
The y-to-ies spelling follows the usual rule for a consonant before final y. The plural reaches beyond courtrooms: it also covers panels judging a competition and, in slang, opening-night audiences whose reaction can make or break a show. The same spelling is also a present-tense form of the verb meaning to judge by jury, as in a show that juries its entries. The adjective for a temporary contrivance never takes it.
juries is a form of jury
jury, noun: A group of people chosen from the public to hear the evidence in a court case and decide the verdict. Full entry
- Forms
- juryjuries plural
- Spelling
- jury → juries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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