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Indict vs Reindict - What's the difference?

indict | reindict |

As verbs the difference between indict and reindict

is that indict is to accuse of wrongdoing; charge while reindict is to indict again.

indict

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
    • a book that indicts modern values
  • (legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
    • his former manager was indicted for fraud

    See also

    * indite

    reindict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To indict again.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 23, author=Reuters, title=Stock Loans Investigation Draws in 5 on Charges, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Andrew Caccioppoli, another former manager at Janney’s stock-loan desk, had been indicted previously but was reindicted along with his sister, Donna Macli, and her husband, Thomas Macli. }}