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STATE ATTORNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does state attorney mean? 

STATE ATTORNEY (noun)
  The noun STATE ATTORNEY has 1 sense:

1. a prosecuting attorney for a stateplay

  Familiarity information: STATE ATTORNEY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STATE ATTORNEY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A prosecuting attorney for a state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

state's attorney; state attorney

Hypernyms ("state 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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