prosecutors
- 1Plural of prosecutor.
Federal prosecutors filed charges against three executives this week.
The prosecutors presented new evidence on the second day of the trial.
Note
A regular plural formed with -s; its possessive puts the apostrophe after the s, as in the prosecutors' case. The plural carries both meanings of the singular. Usually it means the lawyers who argue a case for the state, as in federal prosecutors. It can also name the people who set a criminal case in motion: a complainant, a victim or a chief witness. That second meaning is worth keeping in mind when reading legal writing.
prosecutors is a form of prosecutor
prosecutor, noun: A lawyer who conducts the case against a defendant in a criminal trial. Full entry
- Forms
- prosecutorprosecutors plural
- Spelling
- prosecutor → prosecutors: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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