prosecutornoun [ C ]
uk/ˈprɒs.ɪ.kjuː.tər/us/ˈprɑː.sə.kjuː.t̬ɚ/C2 a legal official who accuses someone of committing a crime, especially in a law court
Examples
- The tape recordings provided prosecutors with the evidence they needed to prove he'd been involved in the conspiracy.
- a public/state prosecutor
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lawyers & legal officials
- advocate
- articled
- attorney
- attorney general
- bailiff
- bar
- coroner
- counsel
- counsellor
- Director of Public Prosecutions
- district attorney
- draftswoman
- I rest my case idiom
- KC
- marshal
- paralegal
- probation officer
- prosecution
- public defender
- public prosecutor
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