indentured / ɪnˈdɛn tʃər /

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indentured2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  2. any deed, written contract, or sealed agreement.
  3. a contract by which a person, as an apprentice, is bound to service.
v. 有主动词 verb

in·den·tured, in·den·tur·ing.

  1. to bind by indenture, as an apprentice.
  2. Archaic. to make a depression in; wrinkle; furrow.

indentured 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

obligated

indentured 的近义词 5

更多indentured例句

  1. She still wants indentured servants—excuse me, wards—to run the hospital for her, and she still wants power over all of them.
  2. During construction, many men, indentured servants in the beginning, were blown apart during the blasting and digging.
  3. If the indentured-servitude thesis is correct, it should be a pretty low number, right?
  4. Johnson—and other black indentured servants—were able to succeed in 17th-century Virginia.
  5. The white Hempstead, for instance, worked his way out of indentured servitude, the next step up from slavery.
  6. In addition to the regular settlers at Jamestown, from time to time indentured servants came to America.
  7. The Negroes seemed to be more easily adaptable to hard, manual labor than the Indians or indentured white servants had been.
  8. To be apprenticed then was to be absolutely indentured; to belong to the master for a term of years.
  9. Hughson had in his service an indentured servant,—a girl of sixteen years,—named Mary Burton.
  10. One was instigated by a perjurer and a heretic, the other by an indentured servant, in all probability from a convict ship.