indenture
- IPA[inˈden(t)SHər]
美式
- a legal agreement, contract, or document.；a deed of contract of which copies were made for the contracting parties with the edges indented for identification.
- bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or laborer
verb: indenture, 3rd person present: indentures, gerund or present participle: indenturing, past tense: indentured, past participle: indentured
noun: indenture, plural noun: indentures
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a legal agreement, contract, or document.
- ▪ a deed of contract of which copies were made for the contracting parties with the edges indented for identification.
- ▪ a formal list, certificate, or inventory indentures recording the number of 1377 taxpayers
- ▪ an agreement binding an apprentice to a master the 30 apprentices have received their indentures on completion of their training
- ▪ the fact of being bound to service by an agreement of indenture men in their first year after indenture to the Company of Watermen and Lightermen
- ▪ a contract by which a person agreed to work for a set period for a landowner in a British colony in exchange for passage to the colony.
動詞
- 1. historical bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or laborer landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured laborers
- 更多解釋
- IPA[ɪnˈdɛntʃə]
英式
- a legal agreement, contract, or document.
- bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or labourer: Dick was indentured to the Company in 1917 indentured labourers
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