0 making it possible for someone to be accused officially of a crime:
Robbery is an indictable offence.
The prosecutor found no evidence of indictable conduct.
1 an indictable crime is one that someone can be accused of in a court of law:
an indictable offense
A bias crime - one motivated by hate or prejudice - is indictable.
He was indictable under several laws.
Refusing to testify after being granted immunity makes her indictable for her silence.
However, such offences were only indictable on a complaint from the husband.
The purpose was to prevent possibly indictable politicians from fleeing the country.
Magistrates' courts already have power to award costs out of central funds when dealing summarily with indictable offences.
Secondly, we used to talk about indictable cases.
The proportion of indictable offences tried in magistrates courts that lead to a prison sentence varies by a factor of 10.
