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indentured servant
[ in-den-cherd sur-vuhnt ]
noun
- a person who agrees to work for another without pay, with or without a contract, in order to repay a debt or in exchange for food and shelter:
By financing immigrants’ passage to this country, the farmer receives steady labor from the indentured servants obliged to pay off their large debts.
Word History and Origins
Origin of indentured servant1
Example Sentences
Her father was a white indentured servant, a tailor named Andrew Judge, who had come to America from Leeds, England, in 1772 and gained his freedom after fulfilling the terms of his four-year contract at Mount Vernon.
An indentured servant was typically someone who agreed to work for several years in exchange for his or her passage, eventual freedom, and the promise of some land.
Sambo had learned his trade from a Scottish convict turned indentured servant.
A son of a once wealthy merchant family, Joyce was being sent to the West Indies to start his new life as an indentured servant.
Ashley McMahan, Hyunji Lee’s attorney, said her client was treated like an “indentured servant” by the other defendants.
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