empanel
verb /ɪmˈpænl/
/ɪmˈpænl/
(also impanel)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they empanel | /ɪmˈpænl/ /ɪmˈpænl/ |
| he / she / it empanels | /ɪmˈpænlz/ /ɪmˈpænlz/ |
| past simple empanelled | /ɪmˈpænld/ /ɪmˈpænld/ |
| past participle empanelled | /ɪmˈpænld/ /ɪmˈpænld/ |
| (US English) past simple empaneled | /ɪmˈpænld/ /ɪmˈpænld/ |
| (US English) past participle empaneled | /ɪmˈpænld/ /ɪmˈpænld/ |
| -ing form empanelling | /ɪmˈpænəlɪŋ/ /ɪmˈpænəlɪŋ/ |
| (US English) -ing form empaneling | /ɪmˈpænəlɪŋ/ /ɪmˈpænəlɪŋ/ |
- empanel somebody/something to choose the members of a jury in a court case; to choose somebody as a member of a juryOxford Collocations DictionaryImpanel is used with these nouns as the object:
- jury
Word Originlate Middle English (originally as empanel): from Anglo-Norman French empaneller, from em- ‘in’ + Old French panel ‘panel’.