indentureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• endenture (廃れた用法)

語源

From Anglo-Norman endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter (“to dent”).^[1] The name of the contract derives from the irregular dent-shaped cut (indentation) used to prove the authenticity of the two parts, similar to a chirograph.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɛn.ʃɝ/

名詞

indenture (複数形 indentures)

1. (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter II, in Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans  […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free.

2. (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
   • 1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 1]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, OCLC 175011656, page 159:

     Walking the street very hungry, and not knowing what to do with himself, a crimp's bill was put into his hand, offering immediate entertainment and encouragement to such as would bind themselves to serve in America. He went directly, sign'd the indentures, was put into the ship, and came over, never writing a line to acquaint his friends what was become of him.

   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter III, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 558204586, page 46:

     It was the critical moment of Oliver’s fate. If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.

   • 1886, Mary E. Wilkins, The Adventures of Ann:

     For the next two years, Ann's position in the family grew to be more and more that of a daughter. If it had not been for the indentures lying serenely in that tall wooden desk, she would almost have forgotten, herself, that she was a bound girl.

3. An indentation; a recess.
   • 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter X, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 277985465, page 264:

     The narrow windows, flanked by deep indentures into the walls, seemed formed rather to exclude than to admit the cheerful light; and the heavy and gloomy appearance of the thunder-sky added still farther to the obscurity.

動詞

indenture (三人称単数 現在形 indentures, 現在分詞 indenturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 indentured)

1. (law) To bind a person under such a contract.
2. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

   Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.

派生語

• indenturer
• indenturee
• indentureship
• reindenture
• nonindentured
• indenturedness
• indentured servant
• unindentured

関連する語

• indent

参考

• bondslavery
• bondslave
• bondsman
• bondservant
• bonded labour

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