indentured

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English

Pronunciation

Adjective

indentured (not comparable)

  1. Subject to an indenture.
    indentured servant
    indentured labour
    • 2022, Mary Elise Antoine, Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850, Wisconsin Historical Society, →ISBN:
      As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).

Derived terms

Noun

indentured (plural indentureds)

  1. A person who is subject to an indenture.

Verb

indentured

  1. simple past and past participle of indenture