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indenture

英[ɪn'dentʃə(r)] 美[ɪn'dentʃər]
  • n. 契约;合同;锯齿状的边缘;凹的部分
  • (复数)indentures:师徒契约; 定期服务合同.
  • vt. 以契约束缚
indentured indentured indenturing indentures
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Noun:
  1. a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)

  2. formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt

  3. a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term

  4. the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

Verb:
  1. bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant;

    "an indentured servant"

双语例句

1. She had to sign an indenture to sell herself, because she owed money to the landlord .
由于欠地主家的钱,她不得已签了卖身契。

来自辞典例句

2. To bind into the service of another by indenture.
以契约约束按契约的规定为另一方服务.

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3. He is indenture to a builder.
他与一建筑工人订了师徒合同.

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4. Xia zhi xing: please give his indenture and identity card back to him.
夏之星: 请你把天骐的卖身契跟身份证还给他.

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5. Soon thereafter, private agents scoured the ports taverns, and countryside to sign on workers for indenture.
此后不久, 私人机构迅速搜查港口的小客栈和乡下地区,来招募契约仆役.

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Soon thereafter, private agents scoured the ports taverns, and countryside to sign on workers for indenture.
      此后不久,私人机构迅速搜查港口的小客栈和乡下地区,来招募契约仆役。
    2. The indenture contract was a device that enabled people to pay for their passage to America by selling their labor to someone in the New World for a specified period of time.
      契约是使人们以向新大陆的某个雇主在一段时间里出卖劳动力的方式来支付其赴美旅费的手段。

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