indictments
- 1Plural of indictment.
Prosecutors filed separate indictments against each of the four defendants.
The grand jury returned two indictments on charges of fraud and bribery.
Note
A regular plural that covers every countable use of indictment. In court it counts charges or the documents that set them out, such as separate indictments for separate defendants. Outside court it counts criticisms: a report can hold several indictments of a policy, and poor results can stand as indictments of the system that produced them. Where indictment names the legal process itself, it stays singular.
indictments is a form of indictment
indictment, noun: A formal, official accusation that a person has committed a crime, or the legal process of bringing that charge before a jury. Full entry
- Forms
- indictmentindictments plural
- Spelling
- indictment → indictments: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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