jury box
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈdʒʊəri bɑks/
:
banco de jurados
- As the lawyer presented her case, she frequently looked toward the jury box to gauge the jurors' reactions.
Examples
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The judge asked the jurors to take their seats in the jury box before beginning the trial.
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A large television was rolled into the courtroom and placed at the center in front of the jury box.
Fiction book (2001) -
I looked up from the jury box and...
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But when they step into that jury box, I think you just barely see it in their eyes.
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Did he ever start scanning the jury box and making eye contact with any of you?
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At one-thirty, they were back in the jury box.
Fiction book (2000) -
"Have you reached a verdict?" Judge Alfred Neff asked the eight men and four women seated in the jury box.
Fiction book (1994) -
Serena told me she saw heads nodding in the jury box during Hastings' cross.
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Dissolve to stern-faced jurors filing back into the jury box, not looking at Mom.
Fiction book (1994) -
The middle-class jury of seven women and five men takes their place in the jury box as the Sutphin family takes their seats in the front row behind Herbie Hebden at his defense table.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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2.9
A small enclosed area where people sit or watch, for example at a theatre
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'jury' (a panel sworn to decide a case) with 'box' (an enclosed seating area), yielding an enclosure where the jury sits. This noun+noun location/compositional pattern is regular and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Jury box comes from the simple picture of the jurors sitting together in a small wooden box at the side of the courtroom. That's why it now means 'the place where the jury sits' during a trial.