Indenture
noun
A legal agreement that states the rights and duties of people in a formal way.
An indenture was drawn up clearly stating the terms of the agreement.
Often appears as...
- sign an indenture
- draw up an indenture
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Technical
noun
The space that is left when the edge of something is pushed in.
There's a small indenture in the edge of the plate.
verb
To make an agreement by which a person worked for another for a particular period of time, like an apprentice.
He was indentured as an apprentice to the local blacksmith.
Often appears as...
- indenture someone as an apprentice
- indenture someone into service
Usage tips
Formal
Historical
noun
A legal agreement that states the rights and duties of people in a formal way.
An indenture was drawn up clearly stating the terms of the agreement.
Often appears as...
- sign an indenture
- draw up an indenture
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
The space that is left when the edge of something is pushed in.
There's a small indenture in the edge of the plate.
verb
To make an agreement by which a person worked for another for a particular period of time, like an apprentice.
He was indentured as an apprentice to the local blacksmith.
Often appears as...
- indenture someone as an apprentice
- indenture someone into service
Usage tips
Formal
Historical
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Pro Tip 1/3Legal Documents
Used in formal contexts involving written agreements, often between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
The company's merger was finalized with an indenture detailing the terms.
Pro Tip 2/3Binding Terms
Indicates that the parties involved have legal obligations that must be fulfilled as per the agreement.
By signing the indenture, they were obligated to complete the construction project on time.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Language
Often contains specific legal terms; understanding may require legal knowledge.
The indenture included a clause on arbitration that was difficult to understand without a lawyer's help.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Documents
Used in formal contexts involving written agreements, often between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
The company's merger was finalized with an indenture detailing the terms.
Pro Tip 2/3Binding Terms
Indicates that the parties involved have legal obligations that must be fulfilled as per the agreement.
By signing the indenture, they were obligated to complete the construction project on time.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Language
Often contains specific legal terms; understanding may require legal knowledge.
The indenture included a clause on arbitration that was difficult to understand without a lawyer's help.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Documents
Used in formal contexts involving written agreements, often between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
The company's merger was finalized with an indenture detailing the terms.
Pro Tip 2/3Binding Terms
Indicates that the parties involved have legal obligations that must be fulfilled as per the agreement.
By signing the indenture, they were obligated to complete the construction project on time.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Language
Often contains specific legal terms; understanding may require legal knowledge.
The indenture included a clause on arbitration that was difficult to understand without a lawyer's help.
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and then he was in debt to the gang, and was sort of an indentured servant for a while. So I have a couple minutes. Let me do one last thing I hadn't thought I'd have time to do, which is to talk about what we learned more generally about economics, from the study of the gang. So, economists tend to talk in technical words.
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The electrifying...
the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.
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How India Influenced...
A popular origin suggests that it was used as a way to serve people of color who were forbidden to eat in cafes and restaurants. Nonwhite customers had to order their food to go at the door and the dense bread served as a robust and portable container. From indentured servitude to apartheid,
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The Atlantic slave...
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
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The history of chocolate...
to reduce child and indentured labor practices. Today, chocolate has established itself in the rituals of our modern culture. Due to its colonial association with native cultures, combined with the power of advertising, chocolate retains an aura of something sensual, decadent,
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How technology changes...
It was a way of appeasing the gods. Otherwise the rain wouldn't come, the sun wouldn't shine. Public executions. They were common, normal, legal. You used to take your kids to watch beheadings in the streets of Paris. One of the greatest wrongs, slavery, indentured servitude,
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A lesson in turning...
And when chickens get sick, some of them die. And you don't get paid for dead chickens, and Craig started to struggle to pay off his loan, he realized he made a mistake, but he was all but an indentured servant at this stage. When I met him, he was at a breaking point.
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Niall Ferguson: The 6...
having signed a deed of indenture saying, "I'll work for nothing for five years. You just have to feed me." But at the end of it, you've got a hundred acres of land. That's the land grant on the bottom half of the slide. That's not possible in Latin America
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What Sort of Man Are...
I don't know what you mean. Will you vouch for Duquet or give your word on his character? I take him here to my,, show him the path to becoming free, a landed man, and now he has fled the contract of his indenture,
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Travelers of the Year...
that were working as basically indentured servants near our hotel, and so I stayed to photograph that. Now I'm helping them get a mobile medical unit. So, it's just wanting to give back even more
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The freakonomics of...
and then he was in debt to the gang, and was sort of an indentured servant for a while. So I have a couple minutes. Let me do one last thing I hadn't thought I'd have time to do, which is to talk about what we learned more generally about economics, from the study of the gang. So, economists tend to talk in technical words.
Video examples
The electrifying...
the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.
Video examples
How India Influenced...
A popular origin suggests that it was used as a way to serve people of color who were forbidden to eat in cafes and restaurants. Nonwhite customers had to order their food to go at the door and the dense bread served as a robust and portable container. From indentured servitude to apartheid,
Video examples
The Atlantic slave...
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
Video examples
The history of chocolate...
to reduce child and indentured labor practices. Today, chocolate has established itself in the rituals of our modern culture. Due to its colonial association with native cultures, combined with the power of advertising, chocolate retains an aura of something sensual, decadent,
Video examples
How technology changes...
It was a way of appeasing the gods. Otherwise the rain wouldn't come, the sun wouldn't shine. Public executions. They were common, normal, legal. You used to take your kids to watch beheadings in the streets of Paris. One of the greatest wrongs, slavery, indentured servitude,
Video examples
A lesson in turning...
And when chickens get sick, some of them die. And you don't get paid for dead chickens, and Craig started to struggle to pay off his loan, he realized he made a mistake, but he was all but an indentured servant at this stage. When I met him, he was at a breaking point.
Video examples
Niall Ferguson: The 6...
having signed a deed of indenture saying, "I'll work for nothing for five years. You just have to feed me." But at the end of it, you've got a hundred acres of land. That's the land grant on the bottom half of the slide. That's not possible in Latin America
Video examples
What Sort of Man Are...
I don't know what you mean. Will you vouch for Duquet or give your word on his character? I take him here to my,, show him the path to becoming free, a landed man, and now he has fled the contract of his indenture,
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Travelers of the Year...
that were working as basically indentured servants near our hotel, and so I stayed to photograph that. Now I'm helping them get a mobile medical unit. So, it's just wanting to give back even more
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John McWhorter
American Writer
The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.
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Mike Bidlo
American Artist
I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.
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Sydney Brenner
British Scientist
Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.
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Sam Seder
There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In fact, public debt does the exact opposite - it relieves private debt.
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Bryan Cranston
American Actor
I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.
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Roxane Gay
American Writer
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
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John McWhorter
American Writer
The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.
Quote examples
Mike Bidlo
American Artist
I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.
Quote examples
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.
Quote examples
Sydney Brenner
British Scientist
Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.
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Sam Seder
There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In fact, public debt does the exact opposite - it relieves private debt.
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Bryan Cranston
American Actor
I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.
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Roxane Gay
American Writer
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
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