indenture

indenture is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of indenting, or state of being indented. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
2. noun. A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
3. transitive verb. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
4. transitive verb. To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.
5. intransitive verb. To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.
6. noun. the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

   Synonyms: indent, indentation, indention

7. noun. a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
8. noun. formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
9. noun. a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)

   Synonyms: indentation

10. verb. bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

    "an indentured servant"

    Synonyms: indent

Synonyms

indent, indentation, indention

Common word forms

indentured, indentures, indenturing

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