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
Among her ancestors: John Howland, who arrived as an indentured servant; Elizabeth Tilley, who was a passenger along with her parents and married Howland three years after arriving; and Richard Warren, who helped explore Cape Cod to find areas to settle.
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Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
The young man probably arrived from England in the 1630s as a cabin boy or an indentured servant.
—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
Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
The young man probably arrived from England in the 1630s as a cabin boy or an indentured servant.
—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 site lies on 17 acres along the Alabama River, a waterway that facilitated the passage of tens of thousands of enslaved workers.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2025
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The work speaks to enslaved people's labyrinth to escape to the North for freedom and the ongoing fight for racial equality, the museum said.—
Thomas Wheatley,
Axios,
9 Jan. 2025
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The city filed the petition last week after several armed and suspected members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang also known as TDA, were alleged to have kidnapped, bound and pistol-whipped two people at the complex last month.—
Deon J. Hampton,
NBC News,
17 Jan. 2025
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The gang members allegedly forced their way into a couple’s apartment at the Edge at Lowry Apartments in the Denver suburbs and bound, beat, stabbed and kidnapped the victims, leaving them hospitalized.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
Fox News,
14 Jan. 2025
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The city became the headquarters of a campaign of death and abuse, which included public executions, videotaped decapitations of foreign hostages, and slave auctions of captive Yazidi girls and women.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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And the large captive population offers females more options.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Indentured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indentured. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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