Prosecution

/ˌpɹɒs.ɪˈkjuː.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
2. (law) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
3. (law) The prosecuting party.
4. (law) In many countries, a legal body and institution, usually part of the state apparatus, empowered to perform prosecution. Prosecutor's Office. See Prosecutor.

Example Sentences

The prosecution of the war fell to Winston Churchill.

Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

The justices declared that the statute does not establish an age of consent, and declared that in future prosecutions of persons charged with "indecent assault and battery" the state will have to prove that the alleged victim did not consent to the act.

The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."

Backed by public outrage, the prosecution requested the death penalty to be imposed on the murderer.

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• prosecutions

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