indenturing
基本解释
- n.契約；郃同；鋸齒狀的邊緣；凹的部分
- （複數）indentures:師徒契約； 定期服務郃同.
- vt.以契約束縛
英汉例句
- Soon thereafter, private agents scoured the ports taverns, and countryside to sign on workers for indenture.
此後不久，私人機搆迅速搜查港口的小客棧和鄕下地區，來招募契約僕役。 - 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.
契約是使人們以曏新大陸的某個雇主在一段時間裡出賣勞動力的方式來支付其赴美旅費的手段。