Definition of "state attorney" []

• A prosecuting attorney for a state. (noun)

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• "The best explanation they got came from Edmund Randolph, the state attorney general."
• "The rebuttal was delivered by Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, the state attorney general, a Constitutionalist stalwart, and an early sponsor of the rival bank."
• "The consensus choice and the prohibitive favorite was John Van de Kamp, the state attorney general."