• IPA: /ˌpɹɑ.səˈkju.ʃən/

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.

• persecution
• prosecute
• sequence

• French: parquet
• German: Strafverfolgung, Rechtsverfolgung, strafrechtliche Verfolgung, Anklage, Verfolgung, Betreibung
• Spanish: procesamiento

• French: vindicte
• German: Anklagebehörde, Anklage, Staatsanwaltschaft, Anklagevertretung
• Spanish: acusación, fiscalía