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UK
/ˌɪndˈɛntʃɐ/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈdɛntʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈdɛntʃɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
VERB
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bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
an indentured servant
How To Use indenture In A Sentence
- Besides being the colour of pants worn during training and performing, red trousers symbolize the indentured servitude of children who were bound by contract and often forced to live and train at these schools.
- This was referred to as ‘adoption’ and was distinct from binding them to labor for a master under indenture.
- But I was told that there, in fact, was those kind of indentures in the second column also, the vote for U.S. S.nator. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Leon County Circuit Court Hears Arguments in Election 2000 Contest - December 2, 2000
- They actually want you to treat them like indentured servants!
- When their terms of indenture were over, some moved to Johannesburg and Cape Town, but most remained in the eastern region.
- The Indenture does not provide for any other rights on the occurrence of such an event of default.
- If the bond is publicly marketed, a trustee is named to monitor and ensure compliance with the terms of the indenture.
- What portion of himself or herself any one complicated physical and psychological human being really and truly 'conveys' to another by means of the simple contract known as the "plighted troth" or that of a larger deed called the called the "solemnization of matrimony", is a riddle difficult of solution; and as to how much one may claim on the strength of one or other of these indentures, that is a more difficult problem still. Hints for Lovers
- There were no lacemaker or milliners' apprentices at all in the earlier period, but eleven were indentured in the latter. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
- Similarly, violations of bondholder rights by persons other than the company generally will not result in a breach of the bond indenture, since these persons are not party to the indenture.