indentured
Speech parts
1. indentured - Noun
2. indentured - Adjective
3. indentured - Verb
5. indentured - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Indenture
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This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
They say we have a free press, but we do not. We have a press that is indentured to advertising revenue, and they themselves are now conglomerate corporations... and five big ones control most of the circulation and viewership...
I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.
After its end, labour shortages on the plantations resulted, and this was initially addressed by the immigration of indentured servants.
Africans were enslaved and transported to Guyana as slave labour; on the other hand, East Indians came as indentured labourers who worked in order to provide for their families back home.
After 1830 a system of forced cultivations and indentured labour was introduced on Java, the Cultivation System (in Dutch: cultuurstelsel).