INDENTURE Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

indenture

noun

in-ˈden-chər

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as in hole

a sunken area forming a separate space the dropped hammer left an indenture in the floor

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as in chip

a V-shaped cut usually on an edge or a surface made a small indenture to mark the spot where the plank was to be sawed

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Recent Examples of indenture Instead, Said found a Russian to take over his indenture, Nicholas Vassilievich Trubetzkoy, a 22-year-old godson of Czar Nicholas, who taught him Russian. —

Martha Anne Toll, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023 Webster imagines her ancestor’s work as a milkmaid, the trial and her ultimate indenture on a plantation in Maryland where Molly met Bana’ka, the enslaved man who became the father of her children. —

Maud Newton, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023 Kaz has promised to buy her indenture and set her free. —

Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2023 Although most terms of indenture lasted for as long as seven years, de Sousa earned his freedom in 1638 by learning to be a fur trader and a sailor. —

Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 June 2021 See all Example Sentences for indenture

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After digging an early 16–2 hole, George Mason stunned the favorites by winning 65–60.

Newsweek, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
With these rigs, the line holder works in the ordinary way, but the line runs through a small hole in the top of a wooden box that has no bottom.

Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024