indenture

indenture has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
• n.. 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.
• v. t.. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
• v. t.. To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.
• v. i.. To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.
• n.. the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
• n.. a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
• n.. formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
• n.. a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
• v.. bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant; "an indentured servant"