indenture

中文： 契约、学徒契约

1. A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
2. 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.
3. A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
4. An indentation; a recess.

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