Indenture Definition

ĭn-dĕnchər
indentured, indentures, indenturing
noun
indentures

Indentation.

Webster's New World
A deed executed by more than one party.
American Heritage
A contract binding a person to work for another for a given length of time, as an apprentice to a master, or an immigrant to service in a colony.
Webster's New World
A written contract or agreement: originally, it was in duplicate, the two copies having correspondingly notched edges for identification.
Webster's New World
A document containing the terms under which bonds are issued.
Webster's New World
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verb
indentured, indentures
To bind by indenture.
Webster's New World

Indent.

Webster's New World
To bind a person under such a contract.
Wiktionary

To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.
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Other Word Forms of Indenture

Noun

Singular:
indenture
Plural:
indentures

Origin of Indenture

  • Middle English endenture a written agreement from Anglo-Norman from endenter to indent (from the matching notches on multiple copies of the documents) indent1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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

    From Wiktionary

Indenture Sentence Examples

  • At the end of the session the children will be asked to sign an indenture to become apprentices for a period of 7 years.

  • In 1810, by which year the number of slaves had increased to 237, the anti-slavery party was strong enough to secure the repeal of the indenture law, which had received the unwilling acquiescence of Governor Harrison.

  • One of the most important of the properties of a fine florists' tulip is that the cup should form, when expanded, from half to a third of a hollow ball, the six divisions of the perianth being broad at the ends, and smooth at the edges, so that the divisions may scarcely show on indenture.

  • These efforts consisted in (1) a law regulating the status of " servants," by which it was sought to establish a legal relation between master and slave; (2) a law by which it was sought to establish practical slavery by a system of indenture.

  • The pernicious practice of livery and maintenance was now at its zenith; all over England in times of stress the knighthood and gentry were wont to pledge themselves, by sealed bonds of indenture, to follow the magnate whom they thought best able to protect them.

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