Synonyms:
prosecutor, public_prosecutor, prosecuting_officer, prosecuting_attorney
Meaning: a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Usage examples
The prosecutor raised her politely.
The prosecutor positively pounced on this piece of evidence.
"So it is," said the prosecutor, when he had read the slip of paper.
"Certainly not, without the special permission of the Public Prosecutor."
"Who is it, Brigitte?" the prosecutor asked kindly, as if he too were in the secret of the household.
And that "consumptive-looking" trim dandy, "who always has such polished boots"--that was the deputy prosecutor.
He said something more, and the prosecutor, too, put in something, but though Mitya heard them he did not understand them.
"I will go," said Doctor Manette, "to the Prosecutor and the President straight, and I will go to others whom it is better not to name.
Then he left me money, nearly ten thousand--those notes to which the prosecutor referred in his speech, having learnt from some one that he had sent them to be changed.
The public prosecutor, moreover, said, in a low voice, that they must hush the matter up, and try to save the unfortunate lady from the abyss toward which she was hastening.