indenture

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).

   “And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free.”

2. isim A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
3. isim A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.

   “It was the critical moment of Oliver’s fate. If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.”

4. isim An indentation; a recess.

   “The narrow windows, flanked by deep indentures into the walls, seemed formed rather to exclude than to admit the cheerful light; and the heavy and gloomy appearance of the thunder-sky added still farther to the obscurity.”

5. fiil To bind a person under such a contract.
6. fiil To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

   “Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.”