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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jury service
noun
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▪ Jury Service Leave of absence with pay is granted to all employees who are required to attend jury service.
▪ And when citizens are called to jury service, most will not forget.
▪ Jury service: a case study A valuable case study of this whole argument is the matter of jury service.
▪ People who want to get out of jury service usually find a way.
▪ The court, still crowded with about 78 people cited for jury service, was adjourned on both occasions.
▪ This applied to the courts, and 6000 citizens so chosen had to be available for jury service during each year.
▪ Two-thirds of those summoned for jury service do not turn up, some making their excuses, some not bothering.
▪ You should therefore attend for jury service per your citation.

Usage examples of "jury service".

For this reason, I have no choice but to excuse you from further jury service.

It would be a most excellent thing for an association of our leading citizens to interest itself in criminal-law reform and demand and secure the passage of new and effective legislation, but it would accomplish little if its individual members continued to evade jury service and left their most important duty to those least qualified by education or experience to perform.

Miss Callie was now in the second row, not a good sign if she wanted to avoid jury service.

You are discharged, and you are entitled to be excused from all further jury service for twelve years.

Ogden Secor returned to the city after his grand jury service had terminated and released him to attend to his own affairs, he had completely forgotten the girl from Farris's and his promise of assistance to her.