public prosecutor

1. 1.

   a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state

   Synonymsprosecutorprosecuting officerprosecuting attorney

   Broaderofficiallawyer

   Narrowerdistrict attorneystate's attorney

   law

Questions about public prosecutor

What does public prosecutor mean?

public prosecutor means "a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state".

What is another word for public prosecutor?

Close synonyms include prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney. 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 public prosecutor a common word?

public prosecutor 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.