PROSECUTION

[noun] [U]A number of the cases have resulted in successful prosecution.Doctors guilty of neglect are liable to prosecution.The proprietor has been given until the end of the week to clean his kitchens or he will face prosecution.The prosecution refers to the lawyers in a trial who try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime.His plea of guilty to manslaughter was not accepted by the prosecution. [U]The prosecution alleged that he lured the officer to his death by making an emergency call. [U]There have been a large number of fraud prosecutions recently. [C]