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    PROSECUTOR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the stateplay

    Synonyms:

    prosecuting attorney; prosecuting officer; prosecutor; public prosecutor

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("prosecutor" is a kind of...):

    attorney; lawyer (a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice)

    functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

    Domain category:

    jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prosecutor"):

    DA; district attorney (an official prosecutor for a judicial district)

    state's attorney; state attorney (a prosecuting attorney for a state)

    Derivation:

    prosecute (bring a criminal action against (in a trial))

    prosecute (conduct a prosecution in a court of law)

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