单词 | district attorney |
释义 | > as lemmasdistrict attorney district attorney n. U.S. the local prosecuting officer of a district. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers > state or public prosecutor quaestora1387 promoter1485 fiscal1539 actor1598 fisc1732 public prosecutor1750 district attorney1856 Director of Public Prosecutions1879 procurator1917 D.A.1934 D.P.P.1942 1856 S. Mordecai Virginia (1860) vii. 101 The office of district attorney in the United States Court of Virginia. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age liv. 493 The district attorney..opened the case for the state. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlix. 255 The local prosecuting officer, called the district attorney. district attorney district attorney v. U.S. transitive (with it) to act in the manner of a district attorney. ΚΠ 1922 A. Brown Old Crow vi. 67 You're district-attorneying it a trifle too much to interest me... This isn't a third degree. < as lemmas |
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