OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 30199

prosecution

/ˌpɹɒs.ɪˈkjuː.ʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acusación • fiscalía • procesamiento
The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
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 p…
The justices declared that the statute does not establish a age of consent, and declared that in future prosecutions of persons charged with "indecent assault and battery" the stat…
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