Usually means: Binding someone as an apprentice.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. indenturing: Merriam-Webster
  2. indenturing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. indenturing: Vocabulary.com
  4. indenturing: Wordnik
  5. indenturing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. indenturing: Wiktionary
  7. Indenturing, indenturing: Dictionary.com
  8. Indenturing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Indenturing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. indenturing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. indenturing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. indenturing: Legal dictionary
  2. indenturing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indenturing: Encyclopedia

(Note: See indenture as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (indenture)

noun:  (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
noun:  (law) 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.
noun:  (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
noun:  An indentation; a recess.
verb:  (law) To bind a person under such a contract.
verb:  To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
▸ Also see indenture


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