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PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Synonyms:
prosecuting attorney; prosecuting officer; prosecutor; public prosecutor
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("prosecuting attorney" 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 "prosecuting attorney"):
DA; district attorney (an official prosecutor for a judicial district)
state's attorney; state attorney (a prosecuting attorney for a state)
