district attorney
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈdɪstrɪkt əˈtɜrni/
- Formal
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fiscal
- The district attorney doesn't take calls from strange women.
- district attorney's office
- assistant district attorney
- deputy district attorney
And he ran for the District Attorney of Los Angeles.
- And he ran for the District Attorney of Los Angeles.
- Fannie Willis was not the District Attorney at the time.
- Here is the letter from the District Attorney of New York.
- So what was the District Attorney saying once you got to court?
- Some of those are actually in the legal system as prosecutors, district attorneys, judges.
- Charlie Malarkey was was arguing with either the the District Attorney
- He's also now setting his sights on San Francisco's far left radical District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
- The District Attorney is recruiting specific assistant district attorneys to like, see things through a different lens.
- The President, Biden, the DOJ, they don't have authority over these county district attorneys.
- Race was determinative of the Vardier jury selection strategy of the District Attorney.
- The immediate things that can be done is to get to vote out district attorneys who are not willing to uphold the law.
- And we in, in Orleans Parish, our, our District Attorney doesn't have the sort of appetite for capital cases that others do.
- And he noticed that the lead detect, I mean, the lead District Attorney was there watching him, one of his junior DAS fight the case.
- The Butler County District Attorney, Richard Goldinger, telling the Washington Post that Trump was grazed by gunfire but is safe.
- Again, when she was the District Attorney here in Southern California or in California, there was a dude who was on death row.
- And so in Texas, if you have enough affidavits signed, you can trigger a mandatory investigation by the local District Attorney.
- I mean, literally the ATFFBI, local police, District Attorney all investigated me.
- But the, the chaos that Donald Trump insert creates around the district attorney's office is his playbook.
Examples
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"David, you've got to get the first draft ready for the district attorney and chief of police."
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm from the district attorney's office.
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Here is the letter from the District Attorney of New York.
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So what was the District Attorney saying once you got to court?
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Your Honor, the district attorney with his own words - has just made my case for me.
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And he ran for the District Attorney of Los Angeles.
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Yes, the district attorney has been wanting to talk to you.
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At that time, she was a deputy district attorney for the city of Los Angeles.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now, I've just talked to the district attorney.
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The district attorney presented the evidence against the suspect in court.
Synonyms
789
4.6
A lawyer who represents the government and brings charges against someone accused of a crime
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6.6
A government lawyer who brings criminal charges in a district court
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6.8
A government lawyer who brings criminal charges for the state
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5.5
A lawyer who brings criminal cases in court for the state government
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5.9
A government lawyer who tries to prove someone committed a crime in court
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4.1
A government official who brings criminal charges in court for the state
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is transparently built from 'district' (an administratively defined area) + 'attorney' (a lawyer): a lawyer who serves the district. Knowing both constituents lets a B1 learner infer this refers to a lawyer representing the local/government jurisdiction (even if the precise prosecutorial duties require minor world-knowledge), so the compound is compositionally clear.
Etymology
District attorney comes from the two words district (a local area) and attorney (a person who acts for someone else). So a district attorney is the government's 'lawyer' for that area who brings people to 'court' when they are thought to have broken the law.