indentures
- present tense form of indenture (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Franklin Roosevelt had repudiated the so-called gold clauses in private and government bond indentures, aware that upholding payment in gold would have provoked widespread bankruptcies and devastated the federal budget.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
The bonds themselves have been issued with a mix of terms and indentures, notes JPMorgan.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2022
Myrra Dal is a contract worker, one of thousands of people serving out indentures signed by their great-grandparents in exchange for passage off a dying Earth.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021
Without radical change, all of our choices at home and as a nation will be increasingly driven by servicing these indentures from which there will be no redemption.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2020
Privately, the Kerch knew slaves moved in and out of the ports of Ketterdam, and most indentures were really slaves by another name.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
