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  1. Oxford American Dictionary

    indenture

    • IPA[inˈden(t)SHər]

    美式

    • n.
      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.
    • v.
      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
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    indenture

    • IPA[ɪnˈdɛntʃə]

    英式

    • n.
      a legal agreement, contract, or document.
    • v.
      bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or labourer: Dick was indentured to the Company in 1917 indentured labourers

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