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单词 indentured servant
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indentured servant in American English

noun
U.S. History
a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, esp. during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers
Word origin
[1665–75]

Examples of 'indentured servant' in a sentence
indentured servant

Nobody should make themselves an indentured servant to another person like this.Then she went in as an indentured servant to a big farm.Before long these enslaved cooks took the roles that had once been occupied by white indentured servants.Printers, carpenters, indentured servants, barrel makers and sextons were not usually the ranks from which seventeenth-century politicians sprang.
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