indenture

1. 1.

   a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)

   Synonymsindentation

   Broaderconcave shape

   Narrowernotchcleft
2. 2.

   formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt

   Broaderwritten agreement
3. 3.

   a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term

   Broadercontract
4. 4.

   the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

   Synonymsindentationindentionindent

   Broaderspace

1. 1.

   bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

   “an indentured servant”

   Synonymsindent

   Broaderoblige

Other forms of indenture

plural

indentures·

past tense

indentured·

present participle

indenturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indenture

What does indenture mean?

indenture means "a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indenture?

indenture has 3 syllables: in-den-ture. The stress falls on "den". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɛntʃɚ/.

What is another word for indenture?

Close synonyms include indentation, indentation, indention, indent, indent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indenture a common word?

indenture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with indenture?

1 word rhymes with indenture. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.