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procurator fiscal

procurator fiscal noun: a local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.

Noun

procurator fiscal (plural procurators fiscal)

  1. A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.
    • There was word of the procurator fiscal taking note of his doings, and troth, if they had continued long he must have fled the country.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
    • For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman

Forms of procurator fiscal

pluralprocurators fiscal

Questions about procurator fiscal

What does procurator fiscal mean?
Procurator fiscal means a local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.
What part of speech is procurator fiscal?
Procurator fiscal is a noun.
What is the plural of procurator fiscal?
The plural of procurator fiscal is procurators fiscal.

Words near procurator fiscal in the dictionary

  1. procurance
  2. procuration
  3. procurations
  4. procurative
  5. procurator
  6. procurator fiscal
  7. procurator-general
  8. procurator-generals
  9. procuratorate
  10. procuratorates
  11. procuratorial

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