as in interned
required by a contract to work for a certain period of time
immigrants who came to the U.S. as indentured servants 200 years ago
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Recent Examples of indentured
Both the levelers among the founders and their critics agreed on where the wealth necessary for the new nation would come from: the expropriation of Native Americans, as well as from slave and indentured labor.
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Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
But most indentured people really weren’t given a choice.
—Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 19 June 2020
Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
But most indentured people really weren’t given a choice.
—Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 19 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indentured
Adjective
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Introducing concepts of profit and greed, the Pilgrims attempted to trade enslaved Africans for Native land.—
Mickell Carter / Made by History,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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From the enslaved women who set the tables for others to the moguls of today, the story of Black women in home and lifestyle is not one of erasure but of relentless reclamation.—
Essence,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In 2004, a team of researchers found that the best any algorithm could do for the library sorting problem—in other words, the ultimate lower bound—was log n.—
Steve Nadis,
WIRED,
16 Feb. 2025
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Few people understood—or even witnessed—his great work, bursting at the seams of two bound volumes.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But some of those taken captive are now coming home dead.—
Rawan Sheikh Ahmad,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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More than 48,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began after Hamas' surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killed 1,200 people and hundreds more were taken captive.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Indentured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indentured. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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