| 词汇 | indenture |
| 释义 | indenture verb[ T ] uk /ɪnˈden.tʃər/ us /ɪnˈden.tʃɚ/ (in the past) to officially agree that someone, often a young person, will work for someone else, especially in order to learn a job: 签订契约（尤指做学徒） be indentured toHe was indentured to a carpenter.他签订契约成了木匠的学徒。 The land was worked on by indentured servants.这块土地是由契约工人耕种的。 Teaching in general asynchronous chief academic officer CLIL clue clue in communicative didactic hothouse miseducation Moodle multi-course non-conditioned non-didactic popularize sex ed sex education show/teach someone the ropesidiom socialization socializing tutelage indenture | Business Englishindenture noun[ C ] uk /ɪnˈdentʃər/us FINANCE a written agreement that states the rights and responsibilities of a company that sells a bond and someone who buys it: The securities were issued under an indenture, dated as of June 1, 2009. an indenture trustee. especially in the past, a formal agreement that someone will work for someone else for a particular length of time, especially in order to learn a job: On the completion of his indenture, he continued to attend night school. The apprenticeship indentures were signed by the guild master and the apprentice's guardian. Examples of indentureindenture In some colonies the law on the infringement of the indenture had to be invoked too often. There apprentices had to be ingeboekt (registered) in front of an official, indentures were not allowed to change hands. Some items of business such as apprenticeship indentures, freemen's admissions, or subsidy payments were recorded so that they could be consulted to settle disputes. So, almost half a century after the introduction of the indenture system, 'free' labour migration finally experienced some government control as well. To allow an alternative to indenture, an act passed in 1882 enabled 'free' recruitment by unlicensed contractors. These could be very close to indenture contracts, although the state was not involved in them. The solution was a long (5 years to start with) indenture contract at the plantations end. They were then deemed to be under indenture to their employer for a fixed period, varying from three to five years. This amount became the laborer's debt to the employer to whom he was indentured or contracted to work until he paid off his debt. The parchment is folded at the bottom in indenture fashion. For, in spite of being generally labelled 'free' or even 'spontaneous' migration, to distinguish it from indentured labour migration, the migration of commercial people was a highly organized process. Assam, in other words, moved from indenture to an internal putting-out of effort, by merging supervision and recruitment. When their period of indenture was completed, they could be re-indentured for a further period or released from indenture, providing they had paid off the expenses incurred in their recruitment. We had the introduction of indentured labour with the set object of curing this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No information was given then, or has been given to me since, about the parties to the indenture conveyance of 1795. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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