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What does prosecute mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word prosecute? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.
  2. (transitive, law) To charge, try.
  3. To seek to obtain by legal process.
  4. (transitive) To pursue something to the end.
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It would be able to seize vehicles caught fly tipping and could prosecute anyone caught dropping litter on any piece of land or water.
The 1970 law, which was originally created to prosecute mobsters, makes normal business a crime if it is part of an illegal conspiracy.
Surely he won't be able to talk his way out of it because all the evidence needed to prosecute is on film, if the police use their noddle.
A sergeant or a constable of police would make a decision, would he or she not, whether to prosecute for a traffic offence?
The cases establish in this jurisdiction that you cannot judicially review a failure to prosecute.
In light of this legal reality, the Attorney General's failure to prosecute is outrageous.

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