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Definition of Indentured

Indentured
Indenture In*den"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indentured; p. pr. & vb. n. Indenturing.] 1. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow. Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow. --Woty. 2. To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.

Meaning of Indentured from wikipedia

- often kidnapped and sold into indentured labor in the American and Caribbean colonies (often without any indentures). Indentured servitude was also used by...
- contract between an employer and a laborer with an indentured servant status, historically indentures were used for a variety of contracts, including transfers...
- The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers from British India were transported to labour...
- India. The indentured labour system became the replacement system for slavery in British Guiana. Persisting for 75 years, this system of indentured servitude...
- Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British...
- had been indentured servants at some time, actively indentured servants were outnumbered by non-indentured workers, or by those whose indenture had expired...
- The Tripartite Indenture was an agreement made in February 1405 among Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, agreeing...
- large number of indentured labourers from India to work in the sugar cane fields. Between 1834 and 1921, around half a million indentured labourers were...
- Indians moved to Fiji to work as indentured labourers, especially on sugarcane plantations. Repatriation of indentured Indians from Fiji began on 3 May...
- Between 1879 and 1916, a total of 42 ships made 87 voyages, carrying Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. Initially the ships brought labourers from Calcutta...