indenture

• endenture

Anglo-Norman endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɛn.ʃɝ/

indenture (plural indentures)

1. (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
2. (law) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
3. An indentation.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

indenture (third-person singular simple present indentures, present participle indenturing, simple past and past participle indentured)

1. To bind a person under such a contract.
2. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

   Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.

• Thesaurus:pact
• Thesaurus:agreement

• indenturer
• indenturee
• indentureship
• reindenture
• nonindentured
• indenturedness
• indentured servant
• unindentured

• indent

• oppisopimus
• girmit
• bondslavery
• bondslave
• bondsman
• bondservant
• bonded labor

• “indenture” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• interdune