- Law.
- to institute legal proceedings against (a person).
- 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.
- Law.
- to institute and carry on a legal prosecution.
- to act as prosecutor.
- to bring a criminal action against (a person) for some offence
- (intr)
- to seek redress by legal proceedings
- to institute or conduct a prosecution
- to engage in or practise (a profession or trade)
- to continue to do (a task, etc)
