Indenture

Quick meaning: Indenture is a noun meaning (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).

Meaning

(law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).

More Meanings

1. (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
2. An indentation; a recess.
3. (law) To bind a person under such a contract.
4. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
5. (law) A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.

Example Sentences

Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.

And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free.

The narrow windows, flanked by deep indentures into the walls, seemed formed rather to exclude than to admit the cheerful light; and the heavy and gloomy appearance of the thunder-sky added still farther to the obscurity.

It was the critical moment of Oliver’s fate. If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.

Word Forms

• indentures
• indenturing
• indentured

Synonyms for indenture

Depending on context, synonyms include indent, indentation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include indentation, indent, contract, trust, trustees, trusts.

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