CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does criminal prosecution mean? 

• CRIMINAL PROSECUTION (noun)
  The noun CRIMINAL PROSECUTION has 1 sense:

1. the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior

  Familiarity information: CRIMINAL PROSECUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIMINAL PROSECUTION (noun)

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Meaning:

The institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

criminal prosecution; prosecution

Hypernyms ("criminal prosecution" is a kind of...):

action; action at law; legal action (a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criminal prosecution"):

double jeopardy (the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution)

Holonyms ("criminal prosecution" is a part of...):

trial ((law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law)