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indentured servants

indentured servants is the plural of indentured servant.

Meaning of indentured servant

Noun

indentured servant (plural indentured servants)

  1. (historical) A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging, and other necessities.
    • He traced back to Alfred Standing, an indentured servant, or slave if you please, who was transported from England to the Virginia plantations in the days that were even old when the youthful Washington went a-surveying in the Pennsylvania wilderness.1915, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Star Rover
    Synonyms:
    nexus

Questions about indentured servants

What is indentured servants the plural of?
Indentured servants is the plural of indentured servant.

Words near indentured servants in the dictionary

  1. indentours
  2. indents
  3. indenture
  4. indentured
  5. indentured servant
  6. indentured servants
  7. indentureds
  8. indenturee
  9. indenturees
  10. indenturer
  11. indenturers

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