indictable offence
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A serious criminal offence that is tried on indictment before a judge and jury in the Crown Court.
As robbery is an indictable offence, the case was sent to the Crown Court for trial.
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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