district attorney
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.
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