Usually means: Formally charged with a crime.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. prosecuted: Merriam-Webster
  2. prosecuted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Prosecuted, prosecuted: Wordnik
  4. prosecuted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. prosecuted: Wiktionary
  6. Prosecuted, prosecuted: Dictionary.com
  7. prosecuted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Prosecuted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Prosecuted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Prosecuted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. prosecuted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. prosecuted: FreeDictionary.org
  13. prosecuted: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. prosecuted: Vocabulary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prosecuted: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prosecuted: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosecuted: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosecuted: Medical dictionary

(Note: See prosecute as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prosecute)

verb:  (transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.
verb:  (transitive, law) To charge, try.
verb:  To seek to obtain by legal process.
verb:  (transitive) To pursue something to the end.
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