Sekirov Dictionary

indenture

/ɪnˈdɛn.ʃɝ/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3

noun4

•
A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
- And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free. — 1847
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.
[in the plural] A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
An indentation; a recess.

verb2

To bind a person under such a contract.
•
To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
- Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.

forms

indentured · indenturing · indentures

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