indenture

过去式：

动词过去式: indentured

更多词形：

动词过去式: indentured | 动词过去分词: indentured | 动词现在分词: indenturing | 动词第三人称单数: indentures |

单词例句：

He is indenture to a builder

他与一建筑工人订了师徒合同。

Many longbowmen sign a contract of indenture with a captain to become part of his retinue or company.The captain then hires out their services to the king.

许多长弓兵与将领签约成为他们的作战卫队，有时将领亦会将其转手给国王充任禁卫部队。

For the years there have been few stories on him in the domestic media, all because of an indenture he signed to "sell himself" more than a decade ago.

这些年，国内对他的报道屈指可数，这都是因为在十几年前的一纸"卖身契"。"

A written agreement between the issuer of a bond and his/her bondholders, usually specifying interest rate, maturity date, convertibility, and other terms. Also called indenture.

指一张明确记载债券持有人与发行公司双方所拥有的权利和义务的法律文件。由发行人和债券所有人达成，通常标明利率、到期日、可兑换性和其他项目的书面协议，也叫契约。

A clause in a bond's indenture, granting the issuer the right to buy back all or part of an issue prior to the maturity date.

债券发行文件上的条款，授予发行人在债券到期之前，赎回全部或部分债券的权利。

The indenture contract was a device that enabled people to pay for their passage to America by selling their labor to someone in the New World for a specified period of time.

契约是使人们以向新大陆的某个雇主在一段时间里出卖劳动力的方式来支付其赴美旅费的手段。

Soon thereafter, private agents scoured the port's taverns, and countryside to sing on workers for indenture.

此后不久，私人机构迅速出现在港口、饭馆、以及乡下来招募契约仆役。

Vernon zhong: a xing, your uncle's gambling technique is so bad. How did he win township head to take back my indenture?

仲天骐：阿星，你舅舅赌技那么差，还能够赢得了乡长，拿回我的卖身契啊？

an indenture by which one sells oneself or a member of one's family

卖身契