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DISTRICT ATTORNEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does district attorney mean?
• DISTRICT ATTORNEY (noun)
The noun DISTRICT ATTORNEY has 1 sense:
1. an official prosecutor for a judicial district
Familiarity information: DISTRICT ATTORNEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official prosecutor for a judicial district
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
DA; district attorney
Hypernyms ("district attorney" is a kind of...):
prosecuting attorney; prosecuting officer; prosecutor; public prosecutor (a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state)
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