Prosecution is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROSECUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of prosecuting
• the party instituting or conducting legal proceedings against someone in a lawsuit
• the institution and conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge
• the continuation of a course of action with a view to its completion
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.
• the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior
• the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant
• the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of prosecuting; the institution and continuance of a criminal suit involving the process of pursuing formal charges against an offender to final judgment

Words related to PROSECUTION

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Words that contain PROSECUTION

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How to use PROSECUTION in a sentence

• Scores and scores of times during the desperate conflict had the eloquent pastor of this church delivered stirring addresses favoring a vigorous prosecution of the war.
• I would not be party to make heroes of them by joining the cry for prosecution private or public.
• Then, you will remember, I compelled Elsie Hornbeck to admit that she had been shown photographs of Barnett by the prosecution.
• So intense and earnest was he in the prosecution of the plans of grandeur which engrossed his soul, that he was seldom known to smile.
• On the second day the evidence to be produced by the prosecution was anticipated with a general feeling of curiosity and interest.
• The next evidence which the prosecution proposed to put in was the silent evidence of the letters and the Diary found at Gleninch.
• In other words, it was rendered more unfavorable still toward the prisoner by the evidence of the next and last witness called on the part of the prosecution.
• The story for the prosecution was now a story told.
• We are both strongly of opinion, that the prosecution against Burr for misdemeanor should proceed at Richmond.
• But our national policy is averse to war, and our national institutions are not favorable to its sudden declaration or swift prosecution.
• Besides the violent prosecution of whatever he was pleased to term heresy, the laws of treason were multiplied beyond all former precedent.
• She was also allowed to escape justice, because the covetous old man neither wished to expose himself, nor waste his money in a prosecution.
• The unconstitutional prosecution of Wilkes was followed by the fatal recourse to new plans for raising taxes in the American colonies.
• The hills haunted and oppressed her, and her only hope lay in the active prosecution of her work.
• When John Trevethick, who was the last witness examined for the prosecution, strode into the box, this feeling was intensified.
• Great pains have been taken to complain of the manner of the prosecution.
• The next important measure of the government was the vigorous prosecution of the Canadian Pacific railway.
• Enemies of Prosecution, backed by an enormous fund, were setting innumerable obstacles in their way.
• And in that character the prosecution found the motive of the crime.
• At an advanced hour on Saturday I learned that the crown intended to summon as witnesses for the prosecution some of the gentlemen connected with my establishment.
• That resolution I was, for the sake of others, induced to depart from on Saturday last, in the first prosecution against me.
• If I buy more than one copy, I am declared to be encouraging unlawful trading, and exposed to a frightful prosecution.
• For nearly a quarter of a century it might almost have been contended that I was one of the leading counsel for the prosecution.
• The possession of this province, which contained some five hundred thousand inhabitants, was essential to Peter in the prosecution of his commercial enterprises.

Similar words containing PROSECU without suffix tion

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