prosecution
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˌpɹɑ.səˈkju.ʃən/
Noun

prosecution

  1. The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
    The prosecution of the war fell to Winston Churchill.
  2. (legal) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
      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 perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  3. (legal) The prosecuting party.
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