indenturing

This is sometimes called indenturing in the cases of older children and sometimes adoption.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

In fact, it is older than restaurants themselves and in its traditional form more akin to the voluntary indenturing that a young man would undertake in order to learn to print books than anything you might see on Top Chef.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

In fact, it is older than restaurants themselves and in its traditional form more akin to the voluntary indenturing that a young man would undertake in order to learn to print books than anything you might see on Top Chef.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

He signed a five-year contract with an English company indenturing himself for labor in the South Seas at fifty cents a day.

“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

Settlers brought with them both chattel slaves and the habit of indenturing captive Khoisan.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

But middle and working class students will be indenturing themselves for a mediocre education as universities devolve into diploma mills.

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: A Capital Investment 2010

I want to continue to educate the general public that we are not seeking a bailout, per se, but, rather, recognition that the way we fund higher education in this country has had the unintended consequence of indenturing an entire generation of students who now comprise the "educated poor."

Jon Chattman: Student Loan Forgiveness Initiative Gaining Momentum? 2009

Make 'em in China, where the labor is cheap and without those meddling American protections against enslaving people, indenturing servants, and working children and where environmental standards are nearly nonexistent.

Leo W. Gerard: Toxic Trade 2008

Stand up for not indenturing our children to China and to Saudi Arabia.

CNN Transcript May 26, 2008 2008

Stand up for not indenturing our children to China and to Saudi Arabia.

CNN Transcript May 2, 2008 2008