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Indictment

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Noun

1. bill of indictment, indictment

a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense

2. indictment

an accusation of wrongdoing

Example Sentences:
'the book is an indictment of modern philosophy'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Indictment

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noun criminal law
1. 
a formal written charge of crime formerly referred to and presented on oath by a grand jury
2. 
any formal accusation of crime
3. Scottish
a charge of crime brought at the instance of the Lord Advocate
4. 
the act of indicting or the state of being indicted

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Indictment

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noun
1. 
an indicting or being indicted
2. 
a charge; accusation; specif. a formal written accusation charging one or more persons with the commission of a crime, presented by a grand jury to the court when the jury has found, after examining the evidence presented, that there is a valid case

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Indictment

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n.
1. Law
a. A set of written criminal charges issued against a party, where a grand jury, under the guidance of a prosecutor, has found that sufficient evidence exists to justify trying the party for that crime.
b. The act or process of obtaining such charges.
2. A document or other communication that makes accusations of wrongdoing or describes an unacceptable situation: "[the book, an] exhaustively researched indictment of the fast-food industry" (Suzanne Schlosberg).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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