Meanings
adjectiveindentured (not comparable)
- not comparableSubject to an indenture.
indentured labour
3 more examples
indentured servant
indentured servitude
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).
2022, Mary Elise Antoine, Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850, Wisconsin Historical Society, →ISBN
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of indenture
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivebound by contract
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Origin
Translations
Spanish no remunerado, no abonado
- no remuneradoTranslations
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APA
indentured. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indentured
MLA
“indentured.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indentured. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “indentured,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indentured.
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