Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or service of a procurator; the management of an affair for another.
- noun A proxy or procuration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.
- noun obsolete Authority to act for another; a proxy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office of a
procurator
Etymologies
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Examples
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OK, we think "procuracy" is really bureaucracy "unordinary" should perhaps be extraordinary.
IAGblog 2009
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OK, we think "procuracy" is really bureaucracy "unordinary" should perhaps be extraordinary.
IAGblog 2009
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That we received courts, the procuracy, police, army, and FSB that are completely communist in mentality, structure, methods of work, and personnel.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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He abolished the commercial court system and reorganized the ministry of justice, first into a committee on legal reform, then back into a justice ministry, which was then merged with the procuracy.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Their role was to train recruits for the police, the KGB, and the procuracy—a distinctive Russian institution that combines the roles of prosecutor and overseer of the entire justice system—and the matriculants came mostly from privileged families with law enforcement backgrounds.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Under a plan debated off-and-on since the early 1990s, the various separate criminal investigators—from the procuracy, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service FSB, and other bodies—would be united in a single investigatory agency, analogous to the American FBI.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Their role was to train recruits for the police, the KGB, and the procuracy—a distinctive Russian institution that combines the roles of prosecutor and overseer of the entire justice system—and the matriculants came mostly from privileged families with law enforcement backgrounds.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Later, the procuracy would merge with the Ministry of Justice.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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That we received courts, the procuracy, police, army, and FSB that are completely communist in mentality, structure, methods of work, and personnel.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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By this point, local agents of the tax inspectorate, police, security service, and procuracy had been coopted by the governors, who supplemented their wages, found them housing, and in practice had a say in local appointments.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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