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Prosecution vs Pursuit - What's the difference?

prosecution | pursuit |

As nouns the difference between prosecution and pursuit

is that prosecution is the act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor while pursuit is the act of pursuing.

prosecution

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
  • :
  • (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.
  • *{{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian
  • , title= 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."}}

    Anagrams

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    pursuit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pursuing.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 27, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City , passage=Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.}}
  • A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.
  • (cycling) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
  • (legal, obsolete) prosecution
  • * Fuller
  • That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court.

    Derived terms

    * curve of pursuit, pursuit curve * in pursuit * individual pursuit * pursuit plane * team pursuit