0 (in the past) to officially agree that someone, often a young person, will work for someone else, especially in order to learn a job:
1 a written agreement that states the rights and responsibilities of a company that sells a bond and someone who buys it:
2 especially in the past, a formal agreement that someone will work for someone else for a particular length of time, especially in order to learn a job:
The apprenticeship indentures were signed by the guild master and the apprentice's guardian.
On the completion of his indenture, he continued to attend night school.
No information was given then, or has been given to me since, about the parties to the indenture conveyance of 1795.
We had the introduction of indentured labour with the set object of curing this.
When their period of indenture was completed, they could be re-indentured for a further period or released from indenture, providing they had paid off the expenses incurred in their recruitment.
Assam, in other words, moved from indenture to an internal putting-out of effort, by merging supervision and recruitment.
For, in spite of being generally labelled 'free' or even 'spontaneous' migration, to distinguish it from indentured labour migration, the migration of commercial people was a highly organized process.
The parchment is folded at the bottom in indenture fashion.
This amount became the laborer's debt to the employer to whom he was indentured or contracted to work until he paid off his debt.
They were then deemed to be under indenture to their employer for a fixed period, varying from three to five years.
