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☆ district attorney

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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