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| Main Entry: |
indentured
 [in-den-cher] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obligated |
| Synonyms: | apprenticed, articled, bound, contracted, enslaved |
| Main Entry: | binding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confining |
| Synonyms: | attached, enslaved, fastened, indentured, limiting, restraining, tied, tying |
| Antonyms: | alterable, breakable, revocable, unbinding, unconfining, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | bound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obligated; destined |
| Synonyms: | apprenticed, articled, bent, bounden, certain, coerced, compelled, constrained, contracted, doomed, driven, duty-bound, enslaved, fated, firm, forced, having no alternative, impelled, indentured, intent, made, necessitated, obligated, obliged, pledged, pressed, required, restrained, sure, under compulsion, under necessity, urged |
| Antonyms: | allowed, free, permitted, unbounded, unobliged, unrestricted |
Example Sentences
- They remain bonded to employers under terms that critics liken to indentured servitude.
- One of many children, she was apprenticed as a kind of indentured servant to a wealthy family of wholesale grocers.
- When the colony could not attract enough indentured servants to export tobacco, it imported slaves.
| Main Entry: | enslave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone a servant |
| Synonyms: | bind, capture, chain, check, circumscribe, coerce, compel, confine, deprive, disenfranchise, disfranchise, dominate, enchain, enclose, enthrall, fetter, get hooks into, hobble, hold, immure, imprison, incarcerate, indenture, jail, keep under thumb, oppress, put in irons, reduce, restrain, restrict, secure, shackle, shut in, subdue, subject, subjugate, suppress, tether, tie, yoke |
| Antonyms: | allow, emancipate, free, let go, liberate |
| Main Entry: | obligated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound |
| Synonyms: | bounden, called by duty, committed, compelled, contracted, duty-bound, enslaved, forced, indebted, indentured, obliged, pledged, required, tied, under obligation, urged |
| Main Entry: | obliged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound |
| Synonyms: | bounden, called by duty, committed, compelled, contracted, duty-bound, enslaved, forced, indebted, indentured, obligated, pledged, required, tied, under obligation, urged |
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