What does indentured mean?
Indentured means Subject to an indenture..
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/ɪnˈdɛn.t͡ʃəd/ · adjective
Subject to an indenture..
indentured servant
indentured labour
As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).
Use indentured when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Indentured means Subject to an indenture..
Common synonyms include unfree, apprenticed, articled, bound.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
indentured servant
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