indenture

英 [ɪnˈdentʃə(r)]

美 [ɪnˈdentʃər]

n.  (旧时的)师徒契约
v.  使签约为学徒（或劳工

复数：indentures　过去式：indentured　过去分词：indentured　第三人称单数：indentures　现在分词：indenturing　

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BNC.26877 / COCA.32727

牛津词典

noun

• （旧时的）师徒契约
  a type of contract in the past that forced a servant or apprentice to work for their employer for a particular period of time

英英释义

noun

• the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
  Synonym:indentationindentionindent
• a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
• formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
• a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
  Synonym:indentation

verb

• bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
  1. an indentured servant
  Synonym:indent

双语例句

• The Spirit of Adventure is something to indenture.
  冒险精神就是契约。
• She had to sign an indenture to sell herself, because she owed money to the landlord.
  由于欠地主家的钱，她不得已签了卖身契。
• The indenture contract was 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。
• They led the private army established by the military indenture to kill each other and eventually led to the war of Roses.
  他们纷纷率领自己由军事合同制建立的私人军队互相混战杀戮，最终酿成红白玫瑰战争。
• By use of indentation cracks, determine the crack length that will result in strength decreased, at the same time, analysis the relationship of indenture load and crack length and depth.
  在玻璃表面引入不同尺寸的裂纹，比较压头荷载与裂纹长度和深度的关系，分析引起强度破坏性衰减的裂纹尺寸。
• The functional calculus is introduced to determine the optimal conversion rate so as to optimize the issuance strategy of convertible bond, thus offering a new way for the design of original indenture for convertible bond.
  运用泛函变分原理，求出最优转换速率，并且进一步得到可转换债券的最优发行策略，为可转换债券发行条件的设计提供了一种新的方法。
• Each of us when separated, having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture of a man, and he is always looking for his other half.
  我们每一个人被分开时就只有一片，就像一条比目鱼，只是人的一个符片，所以人总在寻找着自己的另一半。
• He is indenture to a builder.
  他与一建筑工人订了师徒合同。
• This text consider the APA is the result of the game between the revenues and taxpayers, and is also another implement of the indenture theory.
  本文认为预约定价的产生是纳税人和税务机关之间博弈产生的结果，也是契约理论在企业管理过程中的又一次应用。
• Second, the indenture system was advanced;
  契约制发达；