Term: prosecution: the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior
Candidate hypernym: legal action: a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong → 1
Candidate hypernym: parameter: any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance → 0
Candidate hypernym: cabalist: a member of a cabal → 0
Candidate hypernym: babinski: extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons → 0
Candidate hypernym: personal property: movable property (as distinguished from real estate) → 0
Candidate hypernym: ectoplasm: (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance → 0
Candidate hypernym: spirillum: spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water → 0
Candidate hypernym: austrian: a native or inhabitant of Austria → 0
Candidate hypernym: line of flight: the path along which a freely moving object travels through the air → 0
Candidate hypernym: haranguer: a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech → 0
Candidate hypernym: occidental: a native inhabitant of the Occident → 0