procurator fiscal
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "For other notifications that do not meet the investigative threshold, RAIB may respond by writing a letter to the industry and issuing a press statement, taking no further action, or in the event of a fatality writing a letter to the coroner or the procurator fiscal (in Scotland) containing a summary of evidence."