The meaning of VERDICT is the finding or decision of a jury on the matter submitted to it in trial. How to use verdict in a sentence.

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In U.S. legal nomenclature, the verdict is the jury's finding on the questions of fact submitted to it. Once the court (the judge) receives the verdict, the judge enters judgment on the verdict. The judgment of the court is the final order in the case.

A verdict is a decision made after a lot of considering, usually made by the jury in a courtroom. If you've finally decided that the test was unfair, that's your verdict and you should talk to the teacher about it.

Definition of verdict noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. an official judgement made in court or at an inquest (= an official investigation into somebody's death) Has the jury reached a verdict? The jury returned a verdict (= gave a verdict) of guilty. The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.

Someone's verdict on something is their opinion of it, after thinking about it or investigating it.

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