Word.ws English Dictionary

nonprosecution

nonprosecution adjective: of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute.

Adjective

nonprosecution (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute
    • It has been the Justice Department’s preference in the Bush administration to resolve criminal investigations of large corporations with so-called nonprosecution or deferred prosecution agreements.2008 March 11, Philip Shenon, “New Guidelines Ahead of Ashcroft Testimony”, in New York Times

Noun

nonprosecution (countable and uncountable, plural nonprosecutions)

  1. A failure to prosecute.
    • The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, page 207

Forms of nonprosecution

pluralnonprosecutions

Origin of nonprosecution

From non- + prosecution.

Questions about nonprosecution

What does nonprosecution mean?
Nonprosecution means of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute.
What part of speech is nonprosecution?
Nonprosecution can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonprosecution in the dictionary

  1. nonpropulsive
  2. nonpros
  3. nonproscriptive
  4. nonprosecutable
  5. nonprosecuted
  6. nonprosecution
  7. nonprosecutions
  8. nonprosecutive
  9. nonprosecutorial
  10. nonprosocial
  11. nonprosociality

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonprosecution (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nonprosecution.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonprosecution. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.