0 to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a law court, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime:
1 to continue to take part in a planned group of activities, especially a war:
2 to officially accuse someone of committing an illegal act, and to bring a case against that person in a court of law:
3 to officially accuse someone in a court of law of committing a crime:
4 if a lawyer prosecutes a case, they try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty:
Can't you read the sign? It says 'Trespassers will be prosecuted!'
People who hand in illegal weapons will not be prosecuted during the amnesty.
He was prosecuted for having sex with a girl who was underage.
You'll be relieved to hear that our clients have decided not to prosecute.
The company is to be prosecuted under the Sex Discrimination Act.
It persecuted and prosecuted dissenters and recusants who stood in its path and it proclaimed its right so to do in innumerable sermons and treatises.
Many other examples, ranging from neighbours arguing over trespass to alleged thieves being prosecuted before sheriff courts, could be given.
Violence between spouses, partners, parents or children has been less likely to be prosecuted than 'public ' violence.
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