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noun

indictment

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

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Six example sentences with indictment, each labelled with its topic.

  • The grand jury returned an indictment listing eleven counts, and the defendant will enter a plea on Monday morning.

    Law

  • The 1873 indictment ran to forty pages, and clerks read every count aloud before the courtroom in Albany.

    History

  • News of the indictment reached traders before noon, and the company's shares lost a fifth of their value by closing.

    Business

  • The mayor read the indictment on the courthouse steps, then insisted every one of its nine counts was mistaken.

    Politics

  • The indictment described how the trader hid losses in a spreadsheet nobody at the bank was allowed to open.

    Finance

  • The courtroom drama opens with a clerk reading the indictment aloud while the camera studies the faces in the gallery.

    Movies

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