pros·e·cu·tor

(prŏs′ĭ-kyo͞o′tər)

1. One that prosecutes.

2. One that initiates and carries out a legal action, especially criminal proceedings.

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prosecutor

(ˈprɒsɪˌkjuːtə)

(Law) a person who institutes or conducts legal proceedings, esp in a criminal court

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pros•e•cu•tor

(ˈprɒs ɪˌkyu tər)

n.

1. prosecuting attorney.

2. a complainant, chief witness, or the like who instigates prosecution in a criminal proceeding.

[1590–1600; < Medieval Latin, Late Latin prōsecūtor pursuer]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

prosecutor - a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state

prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, public prosecutor

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

DA, district attorney - an official prosecutor for a judicial district

attorney, lawyer - a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office

state attorney, state's attorney - a prosecuting attorney for a state

prosecutor

noun lawyer, attorney, counsel, procurator fiscal (Scot.), prosecuting attorney (U.S.) The public prosecutor modified the charges against him.

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Translations

Staatsanwalt Staatsanwältin Anklagevertreter

εισαγγελέας κατήγορος

acusador fiscal

syyttäjä

procureur

tužiteljtužiteljica

ügyész

accusatore procuratore di stato

検察検察官

prosecutor

[ˈprɒsɪkjuːtəʳ] N (Jur) → abogado/a m/f de la acusación (also public prosecutor) → fiscal mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

prosecutor

[ˈprɒsɪkjuːtə^r] n → procureur mf

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prosecutor

n → Ankläger(in) m(f)

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prosecutor

[ˈprɒsɪkjuːtəʳ] n (Law) public prosecutor → procuratore m della Repubblica

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prosecute

(ˈprosikjuːt) verb

to bring a legal action against. He was prosecuted for theft.

ˌproseˈcution noun

1. (an) act of prosecuting or process of being prosecuted. He faces prosecution for drunken driving; There are numerous prosecutions for this offence every year.

2. the person/people bringing a legal action, including the lawyer(s) representing them. First the prosecution stated its case, then the defence.

prosecutor noun

The civil servant who brings legal action.

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On the stairs he met a couple--a lady running quickly on her high heels and the jaunty deputy prosecutor.

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The poison was alleged to have been wickedly and feloniously given by the prisoner to his wife Sara, on two occasions, in the form of arsenic, administered in tea, medicine, "or other article or articles of food or drink, to the prosecutor unknown." It was further declared that the prisoner's wife had died of the poison thus administered b y her husband, on one or other, or both, of the stated occasions; and that she was thus murdered by her husband.

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Pratt, in deep mourning, and Tom with a weed on his hat, had seats near Pembroke Howard, the public prosecutor, and back of them sat a great array of friends of the family.

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The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined Jury, sat every day.

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He then takes the criminal into custody till he hath made satisfaction; but if it be a crime punishable with death he is delivered over to the prosecutor, who may put him to death at his own discretion.

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Maitre Henri Robert called for an adjournment of the trial and was supported in his motion by the public prosecutor himself.

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Fang sat silent for some minutes, and then, turning round to the prosecutor, said in a towering passion.

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And when he had told them all about the case, and that he had never known a worse case, he stopped a little while, like a man who had something terrible to tell them, and then said that he understood an attempt would be made by his learned friend (and here he looked sideways at Kit's gentleman) to impeach the testimony of those immaculate witnesses whom he should call before them; but he did hope and trust that his learned friend would have a greater respect and veneration for the character of the prosecutor; than whom, as he well knew, there did not exist, and never had existed, a more honourable member of that most honourable profession to which he was attached.

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The duties of public prosecutor were discharged by Dirck Van der School, who adjusted his spectacles, cast a cautious look around him at his brethren of the bar, which he ended by throwing his head aside so as to catch one glance over the glasses, when he proceeded to read the bill aloud.

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A few weeks later, when the tragedy at the Opera compelled the intervention of the public prosecutor, M.

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All the chief actors being of a worldly importance, the barristers were well balanced; the prosecutor for the Crown was Sir Walter Cowdray, a heavy, but weighty advocate of the sort that knows how to seem English and trustworthy, and how to be rhetorical with reluctance.

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Watson protested against this, but was silenced when the Prosecuting Attorney told him that Public Prosecutor and knew his business.

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