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   In·den·ture

   /inˈden(t)SHər/

   

   noun

   • 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.

   verb

   • 1. bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or laborer: historical "landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured laborers"

   Word Origin late Middle Englishendenture, via Anglo-Norman French from medieval Latin indentura, from indentatus, past participle of indentare (see indent1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. indentureship noun

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