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prosecutable

/pros-i-kyoot/US // ˈprɒs ɪˌkyut //UK // (ˈprɒsɪˌkjuːt) //

可起诉,可起诉的,可予起诉,可予起诉的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pros·e·cut·ed, pros·e·cut·ing.

    • : Law. to institute legal proceedings against.to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process.to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
    • : to follow up or carry forward something undertaken or begun, usually to its completion: to prosecute a war.
    • : to carry on or practice.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pros·e·cut·ed, pros·e·cut·ing.

    • : Law. to institute and carry on a legal prosecution. to act as prosecutor.

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Examples

  • In neither case did the authorities prosecute the staffing agencies that employed the minors or the factories that, knowingly or not, benefited from their labor.

  • They refuse to prosecute what is sometimes called lifestyle crimes.

  • A judge last month dismissed the charges on grounds there was no probable cause to prosecute him.

  • If those arrested this summer were actually prosecuted, it would mark a dramatic uptick in such prosecutions.

  • If all SDPD arrests for unlawful assembly this year were prosecuted, it would mark a gigantic increase in such prosecutions, records obtained by Voice of San Diego show.