jury duty

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   the civic duty to serve on a jury

   Broadercivic duty

Questions about jury duty

What does jury duty mean?

jury duty means "the civic duty to serve on a jury".

Is jury duty a common word?

jury duty is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.