indentured
/ɪnˈdɛntʃərd/
adjective
- Bound by a formal contract to work for someone for a specific period of time, often in exchange for passage, training, or debt repayment.
- The indentured laborer was finally free after completing his seven-year contract.
- Indentured servants worked for several years to pay off their travel costs to the New World.
- Many indentured workers came from Europe and Asia to work on plantations.
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verb
- Past tense of indenture: bound someone by a formal contract to work for a set period.
- The farmer indentured the young man for three years of farm work.
- She indentured herself to a dressmaker to learn the trade.
- The company indentured several workers to build the new factory.