indictable
B2CEFR level
52/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Describing a serious offence that must or may be tried on indictment before a judge and jury.
Robbery is an indictable offence and cannot be dealt with summarily by the magistrates.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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