prosecutions
- 1Plural of prosecution.
The reforms led to a sharp rise in fraud prosecutions across the region.
Witnesses who refuse to testify can complicate criminal prosecutions.
Note
The plural counts separate cases: fraud prosecutions, criminal prosecutions, a sharp rise in prosecutions. Its singular is both countable and uncountable, so prosecution can name the legal process in general, while prosecutions always means individual instances of it. The same plural can also count efforts to carry through a scheme or endeavor, though legal proceedings are what it most readily brings to mind.
prosecutions is a form of prosecution
prosecution, noun: The bringing of legal proceedings, especially criminal charges, against a person. Full entry
- Forms
- prosecutionprosecutions plural
- Spelling
- prosecution → prosecutions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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