indenture
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1. indenture - Noun
2. indenture - Verb
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The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.
To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.
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As the son of a son of a sailor, I went out on the sea for adventure. Expanding the view of the captain and crew Like a man just released from indenture.
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
This was to no doubt reaffirm Indo-Fijian bravery, they suffered greatly under indenture and were often unfairly and needlessly provoked. They bore it with fortitude and grace.
an indentured servant
Also, Bang, like Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, had never seen a woman before and felt a keen sense of duty, as an apprenticed pirate, until the passage of his twenty-first birthday freed him from his articles of indenture.
Bureau officials finally put an end to the system of indenture in 1867".