prosecutions
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- 1Plural of prosecution. Use this form when talking about more than one legal case against someone.
The court handled several prosecutions in a single week.
Many prosecutions failed because the evidence was weak.
Note
prosecutions is a form of prosecution
prosecution, noun: The act of taking someone to court, usually for a crime. Full entry
- Forms
- prosecutionprosecutions plural
- Spelling
- prosecution → prosecutions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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