Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bound by contract to work for another for a specified period of time.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
indenture . - adjective Subject to an
indenture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bound by contract
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Examples
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People like to portray this as we the little consumers fighting against the big evil record companies and the artists they have in indentured servitude.
Matthew Yglesias » Intellectual Property is About Consumers 2010
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Instead of slavery, one compromise should be widespread adoption of long-term indentured servitude.
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The first way to do right by these people, to make their service less indentured, is to pay their Social Security set-asides — a legal requirement, although you’d hardly know it judging from the number of people who dodge it.
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The first way to do right by these people, to make their service less indentured, is to pay their Social Security set-asides — a legal requirement, although you’d hardly know it judging from the number of people who dodge it.
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Way too many of his parables were based on 'master and servant' for my taste and lent too much credibility to the notion of indentured servitude.
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First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing
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First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing
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First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing
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First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing
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First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing
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