jury duty
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈdʒʊəri ˈdjuːti/
- US
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servicio de jurado
- He took a day off work to fulfill his obligation for jury duty.
- called for jury duty
- summoned for jury duty
No, I was on jury duty like two or three years ago on a gang.
- No, I was on jury duty like two or three years ago on a gang.
- But our last question to you, William, is why did you bow out of the jury duty?
- We don't call them for jury duty, but if they come into the clerk's office & up, we'll put them there.
Examples
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At the courthouse, I found that most of the people who had been called for jury duty shared my feelings.
Academic text (1994) -
Jury duty is such a responsibility, don't you think?
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I was so happy to be picked for jury duty.
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My fourth job was when I was called up for jury duty.
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I was on jury duty once.
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All right, raise your hands if any of you have ever shown up for jury duty.
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If not chosen for service that day, their jury duty is over.
Academic text (1995) -
I think jury duty is a privilege and a responsibility we women ought to have.
Academic text (2007) -
Just over half indicated that a good citizen votes and accepts jury duty, at least some of the time.
Academic text (2001) -
I'm not sure about other states, but in Virginia, jury duty is determined by voter registration.
Blog text (21)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'jury' (a body sworn to reach a legal verdict) with 'duty' (a responsibility): a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the responsibility to serve on a jury. This compositional noun phrase follows a common pattern and is cross-linguistically straightforward, so it should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Jury duty comes from an old court idea: a jury is a group who 'promise' to tell the truth and the word duty means something you 'must do'. So Jury duty means you must serve on a jury when the court calls you.