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Definition of Prosecution

1. Noun. The institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior.

2. Noun. The lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant.

3. Noun. The continuance of something begun with a view to its completion.

Definition of Prosecution

1. n. The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.

Definition of Prosecution

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosecution

proscriptively prose prosect prosected prosecting prosector prosectors prosects prosecutable prosecute

prosecuted prosecutes prosecuting prosecuting attorney prosecuting officer prosecution (current term) prosecutions prosecutor prosecutorial prosecutors

prosed proselyte proselyted proselytes proselyting proselytise proselytised proselytises proselytising proselytism

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