indentured

🇺🇸 /ɪnˈdentʃərd/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈdentʃəd/
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adjective
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Bound by a legal agreement to work for someone for a certain period of time, often in exchange for passage to a new country.

Many immigrants in the 1800s were indentured servants, working several years to pay off their travel debts.

许多19世纪的移民是契约仆人,他们工作多年以偿还他们的旅行债务。

translation

adj. 契约劳工的