indentures
基本解釋
- n.契約；合同；鋸齒狀的邊緣；凹的部分
- （復(fù)數(shù)）indentures:師徒契約； 定期服務(wù)合同.
- vt.以契約束縛
英漢例句
- Soon thereafter, private agents scoured the ports taverns, and countryside to sign on workers for indenture.
此后不久，私人機構(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雇主在一段時間里出賣勞動力的方式來支付其赴美旅費的手段。