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
The young man probably arrived from England in the 1630s as a cabin boy or an indentured servant.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
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.
—Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
But most indentured people really weren’t given a choice.
—Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 19 June 2020
Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
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.
—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
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The largest number of enslaved Africans were transported to the Caribbean and Latin America.Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Yates, founded in 1926, was named for a formerly enslaved man who became an influential minister in Houston.Ray Sanchez, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
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The couple had difficulty believing Nola could scale a fence in a single bound, mainly because the dog rarely jumped inside the house.Kelli Bender, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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In a second, two civilians used as human shields sit bound and blindfolded.Mick Krever, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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New ceasefire push The escalation came as the United States pushed for a new effort to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, that would end the war and see the release of Israeli and foreign hostages held captive in Gaza as well as many Palestinians jailed by Israel.Nidal al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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Venom and a host of other symbiotes held captive at Area 51 manage to stop Knull’s army of monstrous alien Xenophages from acquiring the Codex.Richard Newby, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Indentured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indentured. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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