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