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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

可起诉的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kě qǐsù de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Prosecutable/ˌprɒs.ɪˈkjuː.tə.bəl/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"检察官认为这一行为是可起诉的。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Liable to be assessed, tried, or prosecuted under the criminal or civil law.

    "The state attorney determined that the fraudulent business practices were fully prosecutable under federal law."
  2. 2

    Capable of being legally pursued or carried out effectively.

    "Without sufficient evidence, the verbal agreement was barely prosecutable as a binding contract."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin prosecutus, past participle of prosequi meaning 'to follow after or pursue', via Anglo-French and Middle English. It evolved into its modern legal sense denoting an act or offense subject to legal prosecution.

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