0 present participle of indenture
1 (in the past) to officially agree that someone, often a young person, will work for someone else, especially in order to learn a job:
I am a member of a charitable trust which does a certain amount of apprenticeship indenturing.
One is concerned with the indenturing of little children.
This year we shall not reach 1,000 and next year, when the school-leaving age is raised, we shall not have indenturing for a year.
They promptly rebuffed many of his plans for slavery and repealed the indenturing laws he had enacted in 1803.
The constitution placed a ban on slavery and involuntary servitude, but did allow for existing indenturing arrangements to continue.
In the case of the latter, individuals could present a petition to the courts, whereby they would admit to the debt and agree to fulfill their obligations by indenturing themselves.
Hammond left school aged 11 and worked in his brother's grocery store before indenturing as a watchmaker's apprentice one year later.
Sharrock gave him regular work after school, before eventually indenturing him as an apprentice.
