verb
- to select and enroll (people) to serve on a jury or panel
Usage: legal term; past tense of impanel
Examples
- The judge impaneled twelve jurors for the murder trial.
- Twenty-four citizens were impaneled for grand jury duty.
- The court clerk impaneled the jury selection process yesterday.
- After questioning, only eight jurors were successfully impaneled.
- The defense attorney objected before the jury was fully impaneled.
- It took three days to get a complete jury impaneled for the case.