district attorney

1. 1.

   an official prosecutor for a judicial district

   SynonymsDA

   Broaderprosecutor

Questions about district attorney

What does district attorney mean?

district attorney means "an official prosecutor for a judicial district".

What is another word for district attorney?

Close synonyms include DA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is district attorney a common word?

district attorney is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.