indenture

🇺🇸 /ɪnˈdentʃər/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈdentʃə(r)/
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A legal agreement in which someone agrees to work for someone else for a certain period of time, often without pay, in exchange for something like training or passage to a new country.

He was bound by an indenture to his master for four years.

translation

n. A legal agreement in which someone agrees to work for someone else for a certain period of time, often without pay, in exchange for something like training or passage to a new country.

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Plural indentures