English Dictionary

prosecution

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌpɹɑ.səˈkju.ʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor. / (law) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person. / (law) The prosecuting party.

日本語の意味

（1）計画や事業を実行するために訴追（起訴）する行為、すなわち起訴の実施 / （2）法律の枠組みに基づいて、特に刑事事件において、ある人物に対して法的手続（訴追）を開始する制度や過程 / （3）刑事事件で起訴を行う側、すなわち検察当局

The prosecution of the community outreach initiative demanded meticulous planning and persistent effort.

コミュニティ向けのアウトリーチ活動の実施には、綿密な計画と粘り強い努力が必要だった。

意味（1）

The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.

The prosecution of the war fell to Winston Churchill.

意味（2）

(law) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.

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.

意味（3）

(law) The prosecuting party.

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.

prosecutions （ plural ）