Usually means: Oversees prosecution of criminal cases.
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  1. Director of Public Prosecutions: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Director of Public Prosecutions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Director of Public Prosecutions, director of Public Prosecutions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. Director of Public Prosecutions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Director of Public Prosecutions: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. director of public prosecutions, Director of Public Prosecutions: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Director of Public Prosecutions)

noun:  the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world.
noun:  The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions Fiji is an independent office by virtue of section 117 of the 2013 Constitution of Fiji.
noun:  the head of the Crown Prosecution Service and the third most senior public prosecutor in England and Wales, ranking after the attorney general and solicitor general.
noun:  the head prosecutor of Belize, whose role is to prosecute criminal offences..
noun:  an officer of the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands whose role is to prosecute criminal offences.
noun:  The Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions or, informally, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is an independent prosecuting service and government agency within the portfolio of the Attorney-General of Australia, as a part of the Attorney-General's Department.
noun:  The New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is an independent prosecuting service and government agency within the portfolio of the Attorney General of New South Wales.
noun:  The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in the Republic of Ireland.
noun:  The Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong is a law officer and head of the Prosecutions Division of the Department of Justice; the director is responsible for directing the conduct of trials and appeals on behalf of Hong Kong, providing legal advice to law enforcement agencies (such as Hong Kong Police, Hong Kong Customs and Excise, and ICAC), exercising the discretion of whether to institute criminal proceedings, and providing advice to others in government on proposed changes to the criminal law.
noun:  The Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions is the person responsible for conducting criminal proceedings for indictable offences on behalf of the Monarch of Australia.


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