Sortition (Noun)
Meaning
Making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The crowd employed sortition to randomly select the next contestant to participate in the game.
- In ancient Greece, sortition was a common method used to make impartial decisions for jury selection.
- To avoid bias, the team leader suggested using sortition to assign tasks to team members.
- During the village fair, sortition was used to choose the winner of the biggest pumpkin competition.
- In the absence of consensus, the group resorted to sortition to decide the location for their next meeting.