(= district attorney) 地方检(檢)察官 (dìfāng jiǎncháguān)
Nearby words of
district attorney
distribution
distributor
district
district attorney
distrust
disturb
disturbance
Related terms of
district attorney
D.A.
District Attorney
Word forms: plural District Attorneys
countable noun
In the United States, a District Attorney is a lawyer who works for a city, state, or federal government and puts on trial people who are accused of crimes. The abbreviation D.A. is also used.
district attorney in British English
noun
(in the US) the state prosecuting officer in a specified judicial district
district attorney in American English
US
in the U.S., a lawyer serving in a specified judicial district as prosecutor for the state or for the federal government in criminal cases
Examples of 'district attorney' in a sentence
district attorney
One was a police commander and his brother was a district attorney.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Another worked as an assistant district attorney.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It was a terrible thing to be accused of, especially when there was a district attorney hellbent on proving he was guilty.