bill of indictment

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsindictment

   Broaderlegal document

   Narrowermurder chargetrue bill

   Partscharge

Questions about 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.