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Discover LudwigThe phrase "indentured servant" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person who is bound by a legal agreement to work for a specific employer for a set period of time in exchange for something, such as passage to a new country or the repayment of a debt. Example: In colonial America, many European immigrants were brought over as indentured servants to work on plantations for a set number of years before gaining their freedom.
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indentured servant
noun
A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities.
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"I'm its dedicated indentured servant.
Shep persists in feeling like "an indentured servant".
Maybe she's too busy romancing her former indentured servant.
Sean Andrews, who portrays Mr. Loughery's Irish indentured servant, snorted.
Since this approval process takes years, this system turns the employee into an indentured servant.
Hamilton is known to have migrated to Virginia as an indentured servant shortly before 1700.
The girl becomes an indentured servant to the lord of the manor.
Half soldier, half indentured servant, Michael goes on murderous errands whose purpose he never questions.
He was black, a slave or indentured servant freed around 1677.
"I became, in effect, an indentured servant," Mr. Legiardi-Laura said.
I am an indentured servant until I am at least 70".
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