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indentured

[in-den-cher]

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noun

a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.

any deed, written contract, or sealed agreement.

a contract by which a person, as an apprentice, is bound to service.

any official or formal list, certificate, etc., authenticated for use as a voucher or the like.

the formal agreement between a group of bondholders and the debtor as to the terms of the debt.

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indentation.

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verb (used with object)

to bind by indenture, as an apprentice.

Archaic. to make a depression in; indent; wrinkle; furrow.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Medieval Latin indentūra. See indent¹, -ure

Related forms

in·den·ture·ship, noun

un·in·den·tured, adjective

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They remain bonded to employers under terms that critics liken to indentured servitude.

Liberation from indentured servitude is an entirely worthy objective.

And now the government is going into debt for them, turning their children into indentured servants.

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They remain bonded to employers under terms that critics liken to indentured servitude.

Liberation from indentured servitude is an entirely worthy objective.

And now the government is going into debt for them, turning their children into indentured servants.

Bosses, of course, can get rich on this kind of indentured servitude.

They want women to stay in the home as mothers and indentured servants.

In it, she traces the rise and fall of indentured servanthood, a movement in sharp contrast to the steady expansion of slavery.

They are currently indentured servants prohibited from holding other employment.

Indentured servitude developed as a way around this.

More likely, an indebted peasant forfeited his small plot to a landlord and became indentured.

Most people were either freemen, semi-free peasants called sokemen, indentured peasants known as villans or cottagers and slaves.

Inexpensive adjuncts provide academe with exactly what it wants: low cost indentured servants.

As a previous poster pointed out, this essentially makes farmers indentured servants of agribusiness.

Federal law prohibits importing goods produced with forced or indentured child labor.

Modern-day indentured servitude, nothing more elegant or less oppressive.

The homeless should not be expected to prove themselves worthy of the chance to reclaim their livelihoods by indentured labor.

The bird, an indentured guest with pristine white feathers, seemed to be setting a tone for the untamed evening that was to come.

When the colony could not attract enough indentured servants to export tobacco, it imported slaves.

Oh, and let's add indentured servitude as a replacement for personal bankruptcy.

Mentor has long fulminated against the notion that graduate students are the indentured servants of faculty members.

The alternative of seven years of indentured servitude to your adviser probably sounds less appealing to many recent graduates.

He never forgot visiting the back-woods camps where black workers served as indentured servants to their white bosses.

All of those booksellers use different proprietary formats which keep you indentured to their readers and apps.

Parents sell their daughters and sons into indentured servitude because the families are starving and live in abject poverty.

Getting a tenure-track position is not the equivalent of indentured servitude.

There's no good reason for such visas, which are a kind of indentured servitude in any case.

For better or worse, there is a certain security in indentured servitude.

Then, there's that whole indentured servitude thing.

He had great research productivity, but he accomplished this by turning his grad students into indentured servants.

One of many children, she was apprenticed as a kind of indentured servant to a wealthy family of wholesale grocers.

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Word Origin & History

indenture

"contract for services," c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. endenture, from O.Fr. endenteure "indentation," from endenter (see indent). Such contracts (especially between master craftsmen and apprentices) were written in full identical versions on a sheet of parchment, which was then

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cut apart in a zigzag, or "notched" line. Each party took one, and the genuineness of a document of indenture could be proved by juxtaposition with its counterpart.

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