indentured

🇺🇸 /ɪnˈdentʃərd/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈdentʃəd/
詞頻
難度
標籤 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.

許多19世紀的移民是契約僕人,他們工作多年以償還他們的旅行債務。

translation

adj. 契約勞工的