indentures
indentures是什么意思，
indentures怎么讀
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vt. <史>以契約束縛（indenture的第三人稱單數(shù)形式）
用作名詞(n.)
- Soon thereafter, private agents scoured the ports taverns, and countryside to sign on workers for indenture.
此后不久，私人機(jī)構(gòu)迅速搜查港口的小客棧和鄉(xiāng)下地區(qū)，來招募契約仆役。 - 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.
契約是使人們以向新大陸的某個(gè)雇主在一段時(shí)間里出賣勞動(dòng)力的方式來支付其赴美旅費(fèi)的手段。