Persecution vs. Prosecution

Persecutionnoun

The act of persecuting.

Persecutionnoun

A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion, sexuality, or social beliefs.

Persecutionnoun

The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.

Persecutionnoun

The state or condition of being persecuted.

Persecutionnoun

A carrying on; prosecution.

Persecutionnoun

the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)

Persecution

Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms.

Prosecutionnoun

The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.

Prosecutionnoun

(legal) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.

Prosecutionnoun

(legal) The prosecuting party.

Prosecutionnoun

The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.

Prosecutionnoun

The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.

Prosecutionnoun

the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior

Prosecutionnoun

the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant

Prosecutionnoun

the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion