Prosecutor

Noun

 * 1) A lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime and tries to prove in court that the person is guilty.
 * The prosecutor got the witness to admit he was lying.

Related terms

 * prosecute
 * prosecution

Thesaurus
AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, attorney general, civilian, claimant, complainant, corporation lawyer, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, defense counsel, delator, district attorney, impeacher, impugner, indictor, informer, junior counsel, law agent, leader, libelant, mouthpiece, party, petitioner, plaintiff, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, public prosecutor, publicist, silk, silk gown, solicitor general, special pleader, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, suitor, the prosecution

Etymology
prosecute + -or

Translations

 * Armenian: դատախազ (dataxaz)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 検察 (for organizatoin), (for person)


 * Polish: prokurator or
 * Portuguese: promotor, promotora
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: åklagare