prosecutor Definition
pros·ecu·tor (präs′ə kyo̵̅o̅t′ər)
noun
- a person who prosecutes
- Law
- a person who institutes a prosecution in court
- prosecuting attorney
Etymology: ML < LL, companion, attendant
prosecutor Law Definition
n
The person or persons who prepare for and conduct the
states case in a criminal trial; the states attorney, district attorney, or
in the case of a federal case, the United States Attorney.
prosecutor Usage Examples
Possessives
- office: He says changes have been made in the prosecutors ' office.
- duty: Similarly, they were not excluded from the prosecutor's general duty of disclosure.
Converse of object
- appoint: At the end of such period, the appointed prosecutor shall be entitled at the next hearing to present his opinion on the case.
- assist: The descriptions may require a summary of the contents of the retained material to assist the prosecutor to make an informed decision on disclosure.
- tell: His Wednesday testimony is in line with what he told prosecutors earlier.
- ask: They asked a local prosecutor to file suit under the country's blasphemy law.
- allow: The Bench declined to allow the prosecutor 's expenses, and said the landlord would probably hear more about the case.
- enable: Witness admitted he had enabled prosecutor to go to Okehampton, supplying him with tea to sell on his own account.
Adjective modifier
- Federal: Federal prosecutors indict 12 men - including Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman - in the " Day of Terror " plot.
- federal: Kong international group federal prosecutors say by the north.
- chief: He was the chief prosecutor of the military tribunal.
- deputy: Deputy prosecutor Janice Albert explained: " He sent his letters by FedEx and complained when they were not answered.
- public: On Thursday morning the public prosecutor 's office asked him to reconsider.
- Italian: They have consumed Italian prosecutors for the best part of a decade.
Modifies a noun
office: This inequity is repeated in many other local prosecutors offices where Internet service providers are located.
Noun used with modifier
- crown: He applied for a job as a crown prosecutor and was offered a post.
- specialist: The Unit now has a specialist prosecutor who deals with all football-related cases.
- state: Some state prosecutors in the US have less understanding, " he said.
- duty: CPS lawyers at the point of charge 8. All MPS Boroughs now have access to a duty prosecutor 9-5 Monday to Friday.
- crime: United Nations chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who was in Belgrade, called the arrests a " brilliant operation " .
Browse dictionary entries near prosecutor
- ‹ prosecution
- ‹ prosecuting attorney
- ‹ prosecute
- ‹ prosector
- ‹ prose
- ‹ proscription
- ‹ proscribe
- ‹ prosciutto
- ‹ proscenium
- ‹ prosaism

