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district attorney Definition

☆ district attorney

noun

in the U.S., a lawyer serving in a specified judicial district as prosecutor for the state or for the federal government in criminal cases

district attorney Law Definition

n

A prosecutor in the state or municipal court system, often an elected official.
district attorney Usage Examples

Possessives

  • office: Recently the Brooklyn district attorney's office had handled seven major cases of fraud.

Converse of object

  • elect: Elected district attorney of New York County in 1937, he became the Republican Party candidate for governor and won the post in 1942.
  • become: In 1966 Specter became district attorney of Philadelphia, a post he held for the next eight years.

Adjective modifier

  • assistant: Self-esteem is at the heart of the program, says Lynda Mitchell, the assistant district attorney who runs the program.

Noun used with modifier

  • county: Insurers like to county district attorney 's if you get in they were just.