Definition of "prosecuting attorney" [prosecuting attorney]

• A lawyer empowered to prosecute cases on behalf of a government and its people. Also called prosecution, prosecutor. (noun)

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• "The prosecuting attorney was frowning; Mr. Trevillian, the real prosecutor, sat looking as if this were all far too much for his sadly limited understanding."
• "The prosecuting attorney made much of the plot and little of the absence of the co-conspirator, Mrs. Morgan."
• "“Call Mr. James Hyde!” said the prosecuting attorney loudly."