Prosecutor

English

Noun

Prosecutor (plural Prosecutors)

1. A lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime and tries to prove in court that the person is guilty.

   The prosecutor got the witness to admit he was lying.

Related terms

• prosecute
• prosecution

Thesaurus

AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, attorney general, civilian, claimant, complainant, corporation lawyer, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, defense counsel, delator, district attorney, impeacher, impugner, indictor, informer, junior counsel, law agent, leader, libelant, mouthpiece, party, petitioner, plaintiff, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, public prosecutor, publicist, silk, silk gown, solicitor general, special pleader, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, suitor, the prosecution

Etymology

prosecute + -or

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈprɑsəˌkjuːtər/

Translations

a lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime

Armenian: դատախազ (dataxaz) Croatian: tùžitelj (hr) m., tužitèljica (hr) f. Dutch: aanklager (nl) m. Finnish: syyttäjä (fi) German: Staatsanwalt (de) m., Staatsanwältin (de) f. Greek: κατήγορος (el) (katigoros) m. Hungarian: ügyész (hu) Japanese: 検察 (ja) (kensatsu) (for organizatoin), 検察官 (ja) (kensatsukan) (for person)

Polish: prokurator m. or f. Portuguese: promotor m., promotora f. Russian: прокурор (ru) (prokurór) m. Spanish: fiscal (es) m. and f. Swahili: kiongozi wa mashtaka (sw) Swedish: åklagare (sv) c.