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indictee

indictee

1 9.2
A person officially charged with a crime by a court
  • noun
  • /ˌɪn.dɪkˈtiː/
  • Formal
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  • During the trial, the indictee claimed to have been innocent of all accusations.

Examples

  • The constraint tightens if the witnesses are lower in rank than the indictee.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Interestingly, the one major indictee not mentioned in the Stars/Tilt/Absolute/UB announcements yesterday was Absolute founder Scott Tom.

    Blog text (20)

  • Hezbollah leader Nasrallah has categorically refused to turn them in because "the STL is an American-Israeli tribunal, and the four indictees are our brothers in resistance who have an honorable record."

    Academic text (2013)

  • The court announced that the indictee would appear before a judge next week.

  • Lawyers for the indictee argued that the evidence was insufficient to support the charges.

Synonyms

accused
vsindictee
2 3.6

A person officially charged with a crime in court

is charged through a formal indictment process rather than by general court filing

Antonyms

innocent
54 3.4

A person who is not guilty of a crime or who is naive

Surface Forms

indictee singular
indictées plural

Morphology

indictee = indict (transparent) = indict + ee

Standard nominalization using the recipient/patientive suffix '-ee' on the verb 'indict' yields 'person who has been indicted', which is directly deducible.

Etymology

Indictee comes from the verb indict, which means 'to accuse' or 'to charge', plus the ending -ee, which shows the person who receives an action, as in employee. So an indictee is literally someone 'accused' by an indictment, which is why the word means a person formally charged with a crime.