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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prosecutor has 1 sense
- prosecutor(n = noun.person) prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, public prosecutor - a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state; Array has particulars: da, district attorney, state's attorney, state attorney
is a kind of attorney, lawyer, functionary, official
Derived forms verb prosecute2, verb prosecute1
CIDE DICTIONARY
prosecutor, n. [Cf. L. prosecutor an attendant.].
- One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business. [1913 Webster]
- The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
prosecutor, n. (fem. prosecutrix) a person who prosecutes, esp. in a criminal court.
Derivative
prosecutorial adj.
THESAURUS
prosecutor
AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, attorney general, civilian, claimant, complainant, corporation lawyer, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, defense counsel, delator, district attorney, impeacher, impugner, indictor, informer, junior counsel, law agent, leader, libelant, mouthpiece, party, petitioner, plaintiff, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, public prosecutor, publicist, silk, silk gown, solicitor general, special pleader, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, suitor, the prosecutionROGET THESAURUS
prosecutor
Accusation
N accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration, delation, crimination, incrimination, accrimination, recrimination, tu quoque argument, invective, denunciation, denouncement, libel, challenge, citation, arraignment, impeachment, appeachment, indictment, bill of indictment, true bill, lawsuit, condemnation, gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem, scandal, scandalum magnatum, accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff, relator, informer, appellant, accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent, litigant, accusing, accusatory, accusative, imputative, denunciatory, recriminatory, criminatory, accused, suspected, under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance, in custody, in detention, in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention, accusable, imputable, indefensible, inexcusable, unpardonable, unjustifiable, vicious, Int, look at home, tu quoque, the breath of accusation kills an innocent name, thou can'st not say I did it.
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