indenture

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indenture noun

A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
An indentation.

indenture verb

To bind a person under such a contract.
To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.“Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.”

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