indenture
A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a…A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
» Indentured servitude is often contrasted with chattel slavery.
Meaning
4 sensesA contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
Vertrag, Ausbildungsvertrag, Arbeitsvertrag
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a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
(in the plural, often)A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
An indentation; a recess.
Examples
4 sentencesIndentured servitude is often contrasted with chattel slavery.
Indentured servitude and chattel slavery are two completely different things.
These days, it seems like you have to become indentured to be able to afford dentures.
The narrow windows, flanked by deep indentures into the walls, seemed formed rather to exclude than to admit the cheerful light.
Translations
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Origin
From Anglo-Norman endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter (“to dent”). The naFrom Anglo-Norman endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter (“to dent”). The name of the contract derives from the irregular dent-shaped cut (indentation) used to prove the authenticity of the two parts, similar to a chirograph.
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Forms
plural: indentures| Singular | indenture |
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Synonyms
3 synonyms- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline):indentation
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line:indentationindentionindent