Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

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  • adjective able to be prosecuted

Etymologies

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From prosecute + -able.

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Examples

  • And it was just to give me simply a heads up that they were going only to lodge individuals here who were what's referred to as prosecutable under the customs and immigration laws.

    CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2004 2004

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So we're going to large individuals here who are referred to as prosecutable under the Customs and Immigration laws.

    CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2004 2004

  • Garage Spaces is a three-month project with three scheduled exhibitions; the first being Stolen, an exhibition of 'prosecutable' works of art -- a fun, pithy commentary on ownership and possession, and the juxtaposition of found, lost and appropriated.

    Paul Klein: Fresh Art Breadth 2009

  • "prosecutable" cases arising from Truth Commission hearings, and several others were being investigated.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • This seems to me a tremendously important and root-cause issue — if not clearly prosecutable — to develop some national dialogue around.

    Matthew Yglesias » A State Prosecutor for Bush? 2009

  • And Guantánamo was a place where American interrogators in at least one case tortured an al-Qaeda member to the point he was no longer prosecutable in any U.S. court.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • How do we take comfort, for instance, in the reluctance to prosecute when the extent and scope and scale of the prosecutable behavior remains unknown?

    Disbarment of lawyers involved in interrogation policies sought 2009

  • And Guantánamo was a place where American interrogators in at least one case tortured an al-Qaeda member to the point he was no longer prosecutable in any U.S. court.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Section 103 of the TVPRA in essence amended MEJA, making prosecutable in the U.S. any trafficking-related felony offense committed by anyone employed by or contracted to the agencies of the U.S. government not covered under MEJA the contractors' dependents are also covered under the TVPRA.

    David Isenberg: Ooh, Aah: PMC Feeling Good David Isenberg 2011

  • You can say anything you like, act on it and it can become a prosecutable offense.

    Think Progress » New report finds that right-wing extremist groups have grown 244 percent in the past year. 2010

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