Noun

(en noun)

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.

*{{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."}}

Noun

(en noun)

That which represents another.

(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.

(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.

(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.

A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.

A theatrical performance.