indentured

Speech parts

1. indentured - Noun

2. indentured - Adjective

3. indentured - Verb

5. indentured - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Indenture

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bound articled apprenticed accepted article contract acquired assumed binding employ crowned contracted bind bent constrained

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Antonyms

free removed abandoned cancelled canned booted

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Phrases with the word

indentured slavery indentured state indentured service

Examples

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations. Ralph Nader

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... Ralph Nader

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. Bryan Cranston

After its end, labour shortages on the plantations resulted, and this was initially addressed by the immigration of indentured servants. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

After 1830 a system of forced cultivations and indentured labour was introduced on Java, the Cultivation System (in Dutch: cultuurstelsel). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

indentor indentour indenture indentured servant indentured service indentured slavery