indenture

noun · verbB2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

indenturesendenture

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 contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
3.
(in plural, often)(law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
4.
An indentation; a recess.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

indentures

V_ing/Gerund

indenturing

V_ed/pp

indenturedendenture

1.
(law) 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.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

indenturerindentureeindentureshipreindenturenonindenturedindenturednessindentured servantunindentured indentbondslaverybondslavebondsmanbondservantbonded labour

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Nguồn gốc từ

From endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter (to dent). The name of the contract derives from the irregular dent-shaped cut (indentation) used to prove the authenticity of the two parts, similar to a chirograph.