单词 | panelist |
释义 | panelist (once / 16485 pages) n If you're a member of a group that's officially (sometimes publicly) discussing a specific subject, you're a panelist. Most panelists are either experts in the subject being discussed, or people whose lives are affected by related issues, developments, or changes. A group of panelists is called a panel, which comes from the Old French, in which it means "piece of cloth," and an Anglo-French legal meaning, "piece of parchment listing jurors." Panelist is an American English invention from about 1950. WORD FAMILYpanelist: panelists+/panel: paneled, paneling, panelist, panelled, panellist, panels/paneling: panelings/panellist: panellists USAGE EXAMPLESAt the end of the day, panelists vote on approval questions, and even here FDA tilts the outcome. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) The panelists are scheduled to resume deliberations Thursday, the fourth day, in U.S. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) Several months later, after a process marred by procedural errors, five different panelists convened to rule on the matter again. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) n a member of a panel Syn|Hypo|Hyper panellist juror, juryman, jurywoman someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury forepersonthe presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf petit juror, petty jurora member of a petit jury critic anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something |
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