bill of indictment

What does bill of indictment mean?

bill of indictment means "a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense".

What is another word for bill of indictment?

Close synonyms include indictment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bill of indictment a common word?

bill of indictment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bill of indictment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.