Sentence examples for indenture from inspiring English sources
The word 'indenture' is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe an agreement between a person and an entity, often in connection with a legal contract. For example, "The indenture between the company and the employee set out the terms of the agreement."
noun
A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
They had arrived in South Africa as indentured labourers but after serving their indenture they turn to market gardening and petty trade.
Perhaps as many as half of all the white settlers in North America were indentured servants, who agreed to work for someone (the purchaser of the indenture) upon arrival to pay for their passage.
After the termination of the indenture system in 1920, Indian agitation over political and economic grievances caused strikes and continual discontent and challenged the commercial and political domination of the small European community in the islands.
Indenture of servants, deeding of property, evidence at trials, and accounts of the lives of saints all came to be functions of written texts.
Having come of age, Frederic announces that he loathes piracy and, since his term of indenture is complete, he will be leaving.
His indenture papers commit him to remain a pirate until his "21st birthday," not his "21st year".
Alaudin's father was in fact part of a much larger history of South Asian Muslim men, predominantly from East Bengal but also from Punjab and the Northwest Frontier, who labored under indenture-like conditions on British steamships and who began jumping ship in U.S. ports in significant numbers during World War I in order to access factory and restaurant jobs onshore.
About 43% of the former British colony's 750,000 inhabitants are descended from Indian indentured labourers; 31% from African slaves.
But a lack of substantive reform left the farmers effectively indentured to the state.
Descendants of Indian, Javanese and Hakka Chinese indentured labourers have evolved their own local tongues.
Trinidad's population of 1.3m is split roughly equally between the descendants of African slaves and those of Indian indentured labourers.
