Dictionary Entry
prosecution
prosecution is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.
- 2noun
The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.
- 3noun
The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.
- 4noun
The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.
- 5noun
the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
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- 6noun
the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior
- 7noun
the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant
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