{
    "term": "indictment",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a sign that a system, society, etc. is very bad or very wrong",
            "sensetop": "indictment (of/on somebody/something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The poverty in our cities is a damning indictment of modern society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This research is a terrible indictment on the medical profession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a rather too sweeping indictment of the field of evolutionary psychology."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["devastating", "powerful", "damning"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an official statement accusing somebody of a crime",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was convicted on an indictment for conspiracy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The federal district court dismissed the indictment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government announced a federal indictment against him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They issued an indictment against them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two men were named in the indictment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "War crimes indictments were handed down by a UN-backed court."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an indictment charging theft"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is sufficient evidence against him to support an indictment for murder."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["criminal", "felony", "federal"],
                "verb + indictment": ["bring", "file", "issue"],
                "indictment + verb": [
                    "accuse somebody of something",
                    "allege something",
                    "charge (somebody/​something with something)"
                ],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the indictment",
                    "on indictment",
                    "indictment against"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the act of officially accusing somebody of a crime",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This led to his indictment on allegations of conspiracy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He faces indictment for perjury."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["criminal", "felony", "federal"],
                "verb + indictment": ["bring", "file", "issue"],
                "indictment + verb": [
                    "accuse somebody of something",
                    "allege something",
                    "charge (somebody/​something with something)"
                ],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the indictment",
                    "on indictment",
                    "indictment against"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdaɪtmənt/",
                "audio": "in/indictment/indictment__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdaɪtmənt/",
                "audio": "in/indictment/indictment__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English enditement, inditement, from Anglo-Norman French enditement, from enditer, based on Latin indicere ‘proclaim, appoint’, from in- ‘towards’ + dicere ‘pronounce, utter’."
}