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/prˈɑsɪkjˌutər/ Listen

noun

Prosecutor n.

One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.

(Law) The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government.

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Etymology of 'Prosecutor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prosecutor" Quotes from Famous Books

... advertisements offering rewards for the apprehension of absconded culprits, strayed apprentices, bankrupts who have conveyed away their effects, debtors that have run away from their bail. I observe, that in exact proportion to the indignity with which the prosecutor, who is commonly the framer of the advertisement, conceives he has been treated, the personal pretensions of the fugitive are denied, ...

— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb

... estimable on account of your sorrow, and as to your savings—Notary! Senor Cagatinta!" cried the alcalde, suddenly raising his voice so as to be heard by all present, "Make out a proces verbal—that the Senor Don Juan Dios Canelo, here present, will become prosecutor in this case. It cannot be doubted that a crime has been committed; and it is a duty we owe to ourselves as well as to this respectable man, to seek out and punish ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... Prosecutor, also a henchman of Kelly's, secured from the Grand Jury—composed of farmers, merchants and owners of factories—indictments against Thomas Colman and Victor Dorn for ...

— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips

... prosecuting attorney knew that the mother was not telling the truth; the judge and the jury knew that she was not telling the truth. But unless this could be geometrically demonstrated the jury would disregard its own senses. Yet the prosecutor knew that if he succeeded in trapping the mother too abruptly into any admission dangerous to her son she would probably break down and cry her dreary old heart out, and then those twelve superhuman jurors would weep with her and care for nothing on ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... then gone through of binding over the prosecutor, &c., and then the attorney was committed to Newgate, whither he was escorted amidst ...

— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding

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