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n. The act of prosecuting.

n. The institution and conduct of a legal proceeding.

n. See prosecuting attorney.

n. The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.

n. The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.

n. The prosecuting party.

n. The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind

n.

n. The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.

n. The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.

n. The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.

n. A following after; a pursuing; pursuit.

n. The act or process of prosecuting, or pursuing with the object of obtaining or accomplishing something; pursuit by endeavor of body or mind; the carrying on or following up of any matter in hand: as, the prosecution of a scheme or undertaking; the prosecution of war or of commerce; the prosecution of a work, argument, or inquiry.

n. The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity to obtain some right or to redress and punish some wrong: as, the prosecution of a claim in chancery.

n. The institution and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges or accusations before a legal tribunal and the pressing of them: as, prosecutions by the crown or by the state.

n. The party by whom proceedings are instituted: as, such a course was adopted by the prosecution.

n. See the adjectives.

n. the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant

n. the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion

n. the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior

"The controversy over the policing and prosecution of assisted dying ­intensified tonight when another septuagenarian invited arrest and criminal ­prosecution by admitting that he helped his wife kill herself with an overdose of antidepressants."

aggregation    collection    accumulation    assemblage    continuance    continuation   

prosecution of offenses act    criminal   

prosecute    persecution    sequence   

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trial    arrest    punishment    imprisonment    persecution    execution    lawsuit    proceeding    indictment    pursuit