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district attorney

noun

  1. an officer who acts as attorney for the people or government within a specified district.


district attorney

noun

  1. (in the US) the state prosecuting officer in a specified judicial district


district attorney

  1. An official responsible for representing the government in court cases and for prosecuting criminals.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of district attorney1

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90

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Example Sentences

It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.

“We do not know where he is,” District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told reporters.

Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson explained his decision to impanel a grand jury in a statement released Friday.

“Wherever the investigation leads is where the district attorney plans to go,” Todd told The Daily Beast.

Black community leaders picketed the office of then-Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau.

Several jurymen leave their seats, but the district attorney hurries forward, and whispers to them.

He was indeed defeated in his first contest, that for district attorney of Erie County.

The child can't possibly have behaved properly, Kurt, or the district attorney's sons would not have teased her.

Mrs. Maxa told her brother now about the morning's interview with the wife of the district attorney.

She already saw the moment before her when Mzli would tell the district attorney's wife that new appellation.

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