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单词 indentured
释义
indentured
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adj

To be indentured is to be forced to work by some contract. It started out as a word for a contract between masters and apprentices. Now it describes anyone bound to work, like it or not, because of some deal.
Use the adjective indentured to describe someone who's bound or attached in a legal sense. If you're an indentured plumber's apprentice, you have guaranteed that you'll do that job in a particular way, for a specific length of time. If you're indentured to your grandmother, you may have promised to feed her cat every day for a month. When the word is used in this casual way, it implies a sense of duty that's become a burden.
WORD FAMILY
indenture: indentured, indentures, indenturing+/indent: indentation, indented, indenting, indents, indenture/indentation: indentations
USAGE EXAMPLES
The states were demoted from partners to indentured servants.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 09, 2016)
These white castaways, mainly indentured servants and convicted criminals, were shunned in the new society.
Salon(Nov 19, 2016)
Since the prisoners were working without payment, it was considered a form of indentured servitude.
New York Times(Nov 18, 2016)
adj bound by contract
Syn
apprenticed, articled, bound
unfree
hampered and not free; not able to act at will
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