indentured

From indenture +‎ -ed.

• enPR: ĭn-dĕn′chərd
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɛn.t͡ʃəd/
• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɛn.t͡ʃəɹd/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈden.t͡ʃəd/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ənˈden.t͡ʃəd/, /ənˈden.t͡ʃɐd/, /ənˈden.t͡ʃad/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɖɛn.t͡ʃəʳɖ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntʃə(ɹ)d
• Hyphenation: in‧den‧tured

indentured (not comparable)

1. Subject to an indenture.

   indentured servant

   indentured labour

   • 2022, Mary Elise Antoine, Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850‎^[1], Wisconsin Historical Society, →ISBN:

     As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).

indentured (plural indentureds)

1. A person who is subject to an indenture.

indentured

1. simple past and past participle of indenture