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Definitions for indentured
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Princeton's WordNet
apprenticed, articled, bound, indenturedadjective
bound by contract
GCIDE
indenturedadjective
Bound by contract to work for another for a specified period of time.
Wiktionary
indenturedadjective
Subject to an indenture.
Webster Dictionary
Indentured
of Indenture
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of indentured in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of indentured in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of indentured in a Sentence
Indians signed a sort-of agreement, but they couldn't quite say' agreement,' they said' girmit,' so indentured laborers became known as' Girmityas.'.
In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants.
In fact, very few people realize it, but in the late 1700s, there were more quote unquote slaves who were White -- most of them, frankly, were Irish as you pointed out -- indentured servants, than there were slaves who were African.
Right now, student loans are the closest thing we have to indentured servitude in the United States.
Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude.
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