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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prosecutor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
public prosecutor
special prosecutor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪ They included the chief constable, chief probation officer, and the chief crown prosecutor.
▪ It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised.
▪ Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor, but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health.
▪ The chief military prosecutor said 12 servicemen are being prosecuted for crimes against civilians in Chechnya and another 46 are being investigated.
federal
▪ When the trial kicks off Wednesday, federal prosecutors hope to turn Kaczynski indirectly into their star witness.
▪ Mr Caserta, who left Spectrum in 1994, is already the subject of a similar criminal action brought by federal prosecutors.
▪ An independent counsel is subject to removal by the attorney general, the same as any federal prosecutor.
▪ Then federal prosecutors seized his house in Florida and his bank accounts in Baltimore.
▪ Working with Mr Sablosky as investigative counsel was William Callahan, a former federal prosecutor.
local
▪ Only if a local prosecutor then drops the case, deeming it unwinnable, might a prisoner gain freedom.
military
▪ Several thousand soldiers desert every year, and military prosecutors, knowing the conditions, are reluctant to punish them.
▪ It could be a political chief, an officer in the military, a prosecutor.
▪ Prosecutions are rare. Military prosecutors have brought charges in only eight alleged crimes against Chechen civilians.
▪ The chief military prosecutor said 12 servicemen are being prosecuted for crimes against civilians in Chechnya and another 46 are being investigated.
public
▪ He had been a public corruption prosecutor, a D.C.
▪ He was later charged with trespass, and the public prosecutor in Mannheim will this week decide whether other charges will follow.
▪ All prosecutions are undertaken by the public prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, or his subordinates, the procurators fiscal.
▪ On June 14, 1961, at the request of Milan's public prosecutor, it was seized by 25 plain-clothes policemen.
▪ It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised.
special
▪ Confusion then beset the top ranks of the government and the judiciary-#special commissions and prosecutors came and went.
▪ A special prosecutor was assigned, and charges were filed against the officers in June 1996.
▪ The special state prosecutor in charge of the case said that she would be appealing against the Supreme Court's ruling.
▪ Lozano and his top special prosecutor had been praised here and abroad for bringing down Raul Salinas.
▪ Within ten days, a special prosecutor had been appointed to look into criminal misconduct.
▪ Neither the president nor Mrs Clinton has been charged in the investigation conducted by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
▪ The fraud was so obvious that Daley had to permit a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate.
▪ The special prosecutor last month asked the Supreme Court to turn aside the White House appeal over the attorneys' notes.
■ NOUN
county
▪ Baltimore County prosecutors are expected to request death warrants this month.
▪ There are no plans to arrest the boy himself, said the Genessee County prosecutor Arthur Busch.
▪ The two were booked early Tuesday and released pending a review by Maricopa County prosecutors.
▪ Alameda County prosecutors are now looking into alleged incidents dating back to 1995, a year after he joined the church.
former
▪ Kerry and Weld are both scrappy former prosecutors who have shown in past campaigns that they can fight hard.
▪ M., a former prosecutor, has virtually no connection to the committee.
▪ Earle has drawn three opponents this year, two in his own Democratic primary and a Republican former prosecutor.
state
▪ Rafael Cesario, a state prosecutor who investigated the bicheiros for a decade, linked them to 40 murders.
▪ He met with the state prosecutor in Bavaria in 1994 and the state minister of justice in 1995.
▪ The state prosecutor had demanded Melih Calayoglu be sent to jail for at least five years.
▪ Teran about the Jan. 3 slaying of state prosecutor Hodin Gutierrez Rico.
▪ The special state prosecutor in charge of the case said that she would be appealing against the Supreme Court's ruling.
▪ A state prosecutor, he said, found that the two nuns had nothing to add to the case.
▪ On Aug. 24 the state prosecutor, Nurullo Khuvaidullayev, had been murdered by unknown persons in Dushanbe.
▪ An official investigation into the issue was opened by the state prosecutor on April 2.
■ VERB
accord
▪ Davis' siblings appear less scarred by their loveless upbringing, according to prosecutors.
allow
▪ That measure, though, would not allow prosecutors to use that refusal as evidence of guilt.
▪ It would have toughened the system by allowing prosecutors, rather than judges, to decide when to try children as adults.
appoint
▪ But in 1988, the Supreme Court upheld the procedure for appointing a special prosecutor outside the Justice Department.
ask
▪ Then I will ask the prosecutor and his assistant to do the same thing.
▪ The most conservative justice, Antonin Scalia, was skeptical and asked both prosecutors tough questions.
charge
▪ Meanwhile scores of rebel sup porters appeared in court as prosecutors pressed the first charges stemming from the coup attempt.
▪ Federal prosecutors charged that King pocketed that money.
▪ In 1979, prosecutors charged Klan members in Detroit with conspiracy against the rights of citizens and interference with federally protected activities.
▪ The prosecutors charged eighty-five defendants, including forty-four law enforcement officers.
▪ Last year, prosecutors charged him with obstruction of justice.
investigate
▪ Rafael Cesario, a state prosecutor who investigated the bicheiros for a decade, linked them to 40 murders.
▪ Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Castle Grande was part of a conspiracy to defraud Madison.
▪ The couple appealed to provincial prosecutors to investigate.
▪ They are the primary target of a special prosecutor investigating a long-ago Whitewater business deal that went sour.
▪ Before the pardon was granted, federal prosecutors began investigating new allegations of money laundering and tax evasion.
tell
▪ They have told prosecutors Kaczynski may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, a mental disorder that can cause intricate delusions.
▪ In those earlier interviews, Manning told prosecutors McVeigh remained at the shop throughout the period in question.
▪ Wednesday afternoon, Clark told senior prosecutors she would not be returning to the office.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A special prosecutor was appointed to deal with that particular case.
▪ The chief prosecutor told the court that Johnson was guilty of a horrible crime and asked for the maximum sentence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a prosecutor, I would never have missed it.
▪ Bronx juries were difficult enough for a prosecutor as it was.
▪ Cole, a former Justice Department prosecutor, is equally thorough in the documents he is requesting.
▪ Confusion then beset the top ranks of the government and the judiciary-special commissions and prosecutors came and went.
▪ Meanwhile scores of rebel sup porters appeared in court as prosecutors pressed the first charges stemming from the coup attempt.
▪ The fraud was so obvious that Daley had to permit a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate.
▪ There may also be a reluctance among prosecutors to look beyond the individual driver, pilot, or captain in each case.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prosecutor

Prosecutor \Pros"e*cu`tor\, n. [Cf. L. prosecutor an attendant.]

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

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prosecutor

1590s, from Medieval Latin prosecutor, agent noun from prosequi (see prosecute). Specific legal sense of "one who brings a case in a court of law" is from 1620s; earlier such a person was a promoter (late 15c.). Related: Prosecutorial.

Wiktionary
prosecutor

n. A lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime and tries to prove in court that the person is guilty.

WordNet
prosecutor

n. a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state [syn: public prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney]

Wikipedia
Prosecutor

The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against an individual accused of breaking the law.

Usage examples of "prosecutor".

De Batz, surfeited with foreign money, used it firstly to ensure his own immunity, scattering it to right and left to still the ambition of the Public Prosecutor or to satisfy the greed of innumerable spies.

The chief prosecutor made the introductions, one by one, in the formal Japanese manner, while waitresses in kimono and obi circulated with glasses of Louis Roederer champagne, beluga malossol caviar, and toro, the fat-webbed sushi Japanese loved.

Roy Parrell was staring straight at the prosecutor, too tense to make a move while Goodling held that ready gun.

Teeth, during Farsun Week, reached a climax today when the Planetary Prosecutor presented charges against fourteen individuals allegedly responsible for the abduction of Renna Aarons, Peripatetic Emissary from the Hominid Phylum.

Prosecutor Plake moved to have the court take up the case of the Legion versus Dragoneer Relkin of the 109th Marneri.

Prosecutors had amassed a jury pool of over one thousand people but were having a tough time finding anyone not predisposed to finding Joel guilty even before going through the formality of a trial.

He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

It was admitted by the prosecutor that he had sold 10,000 head of cattle during the last six years, and none had been rebranded to his knowledge.

Hazenkamp a couple of times in his prosecutor days, seen him speak on prison conditions, recidivism rates, the usual.

She knew the judge advocate she asked to monitor the transaction would have to recuse himself from the subsequent court-martial, so she picked one she knew the prosecutors hated.

The prosecutor took her seat and Judge Shaheen inclined his head toward the defense.

Without credible evidence, a call for a special prosecutor would set a terrible precedent: From then on, every unsubstantiated charge against a President concerning events during any period of his life could require a special prosecutor.

This would seem an ideal opportunity for a diligent prosecutor, unswayed by politics and suitably appalled by such a massive rip-off, to launch a criminal probe.

The way I saw it, if prosecutors were doing their jobs and only asking for indictments that were warranted, grand jurors should be indicting all the cases given to them.

Just days after his arrival, Yousef boldly agreed to talk openly with FBI agents and prosecutors.