Attorney vs Prosecution - What's the difference?
attorney | prosecution |
(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
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(lb) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
(lb) The prosecuting party.
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As nouns the difference between attorney and prosecution
is that attorney is (us) a lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession while prosecution is the act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.attorney
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(en noun)Usage notes
* In the "agent" sense, the word is now used to refer to nonlawyers usually only in fixed phrases such as attorney-in-fact or power of attorney.Synonyms
* mouthpiece (slang) * advocateDerived terms
() * attorney general * attorney-in-fact * attorney-at-law * patent attorney * power of attorney (POA) * trade mark attorneyprosecution
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(en noun)Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}