Definitions

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  • 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.

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  • adjective bound by contract

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Examples

  • 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

  • Instead of slavery, one compromise should be widespread adoption of long-term indentured servitude.

    Art Brodsky: Purists and Zealots for Internet Freedom 2010

  • 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.

    How To Treat the Help? 2006

  • 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.

    How To Treat the Help? 2006

  • 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.

    Norman Lear: A Letter to Pat Robertson 2010

  • First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • First there were white slaves known as indentured servants, most of them poor people caught stealing

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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