GRAND JURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grand jury mean? 

• GRAND JURY (noun)
  The noun GRAND JURY has 1 sense:

1. a jury to inquire into accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments

  Familiarity information: GRAND JURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAND JURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A jury to inquire into accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("grand jury" is a kind of...):

jury (a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)