indentured

🇺🇸 /ɪnˈdentʃərd/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈdentʃəd/
頻度
難易度
タグ RARE
adjective
R

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.

19世紀の多くの移民は契約労働者であり、旅行の借金を返済するために何年も働きました。

translation

adj. 契約労働者