indenture
in·den·ture [indenture indentures indentured indenturing] BrE [ɪnˈdentʃə(r)] NAmE [ɪnˈdentʃər] noun a type of contract in the past that forced a servant or ↑apprentice to work for their employer for a particular period of time Derived Word: ↑indentured Word Origin: late Middle English endenture, via Anglo-Norman French from medieval Latin indentura, from indentatus, past participle of indentare, from en-, in- ‘into’ + Latin dens, dent- ‘tooth’.
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