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indictment Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a sign that a policy, system, society, etc. is bad or wrong:
- This seems to me to be a damning indictment of the government's education policy.
- The charges on the indictment include murder and attempted murder.
1 a formal statement of accusation
- The high level of adult illiteracy is seen as an indictment of the country’s education policy.
2 the act of formally accusing someone of a serious crime:
- under indictment for sth He's currently under indictment for embezzlement.
- on indictment The defendent was tried on indictment.
3 a written statement that formally accuses someone of a crime:
- on an indictment She was held to appear for trial on two indictments.

Domestic goods, cloth and clothing appeared in about 40 per cent of theft indictments (clothing alone in at least a quarter).
Often descriptions of the ' dynamic ' of the trials include testimony taken at the indictments of people who were never brought to trial.
The tribunal has issued eight indictments against 46 individuals so far.
All sorts of indictments, and all kinds of revolutionary utterances are contained in that document.
There is a prosecutor, and it is for that prosecutor and nobody else to assess the evidence and to make the decision about indictments.
To the general charge of complacency and lack of urgency we add particular indictments.
Nobody noticed that there were two indictments against him.
Last year—the first year for which complete figures are available—there were fifteen indictments, twenty-two prisoners, and some seventy-nine witnesses were called.