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
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。