verb
- to select and enroll people to serve on a jury or committee
Usage: legal
Examples
- The judge will empanel a jury of twelve citizens for the murder trial.
- It took three days to empanel an impartial jury for the high-profile case.
- The court clerk helped empanel the grand jury last month.
- Lawyers questioned potential jurors before the judge could empanel them.
- The committee was empaneled to investigate the allegations.
- Due to scheduling conflicts, they had to empanel a new review board.