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Verb
/inˈdenCHər/,
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indentures, plural;
  1. Bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or laborer
    • - landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured laborers
Noun
  1. A formal legal agreement, contract, or document, in particular

  2. A deed of contract of which copies were made for the contracting parties with the edges indented for identification

  3. A formal list, certificate, or inventory

  4. An agreement binding an apprentice to a master
    • - the 30 apprentices have received their indentures on completion of their training
  5. A contract by which a person agreed to work for a set period for a landowner in a British colony in exchange for passage to the colony

  6. The fact of being bound to service by such an agreement
    • - men in their first year after indenture to the Company of Watermen and Lightermen
  1. bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant; "an indentured servant"
  2. indentation: a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
  3. formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
  4. a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
  5. indentation: the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
  6. (indentured) apprenticed: bound by contract
  7. An Indenture is a legal contract reflecting a debt or purchase obligation, specifically referring to two types of practices: in historical usage, an indentured servant status, and in modern usage, an instrument used for commercial debt or real estate transaction.
  8. An indentured servant was obligated to work for a certain amount of time to pay off a passage or other debt. An employer provided food and shelter but usually no payment except in some cases, when a final payment — such as land — might be made upon completion of the contract.
  9. (Indentures) "For today our pirate ‘prentice rises from indentures freed - "  Originally, a document that was written out and signed in duplicate, side-by-side on parchment, then torn down the middle, so that the matching indentations on the two pieces of parchment would show they had been part ...
  10. A deed or other document executed by both parties.
  11. A deed or other real estate contract executed between two or more parties.
  12. A written agreement under which bonds and debentures are issued, setting forth maturity date, interest rate and other terms.
  13. a deed between two or more parties, each party having his own copy. Originally copies were all included in a single document from which each part was torn or cut along a wavy (intended) line.
  14. A document or deed expressing certain objects between the parties.
  15. A deed to which several persons are parties, in which each assumes corresponding obligations.
  16. A formal contract for a bond that specifies maturity date, coupon rate, call privileges, and other rights.
  17. a legal agreement in which the text is entered twice, then the two halves separated with a zigzag cut and a half given to each party to the agreement; also called a chirograph
  18. A written agreement. (Originally, the document was written in duplicate, and the two copies placed side by side and 'indented', or cut, with a wavy line so they fit together perfectly. Each party held one copy.) See also deed poll.
  19. The legal contract between a bond issuer and the bondholders. The indenture covers such things as the original term to maturity, the interest rate, interest payment dates, protective covenants, collateral pledged (if any), and so on.
  20. A formal contract by which a high-ranking feudal lord, a prince or king, defined and retained the terms under which his liegemen would serve in a given campaign. ...
  21. "a form of standing between free labor and unfree labor. It is distinguished from peonage by its definite period of service... ...
  22. a form of contracted servitude or apprenticeship for a fixed period of time, often seven years in return for free passage to a colony, with the promise of land or money at the end
  23. A type of social welfare service formalized by the Elizabethan Poor Law that placed orphans and children who had been removed from needy families in the homes of people who agreed to provide care in return for the child's labor.
  24. contract between a master or factor and his or her *immigrant servant specifying the length of time required to serve in order to pay for transatlantic passage
  25. programmed by Craig Pell, adds games 4 and 5 as well as a secret area with over 300 more rooms. The name Indenture refers to the fact that programmers at Atari were not allowed to claim credit for their games.