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indenture
noun as in agreement
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Indian outsourcing firms have systematically exploited the H-1B system, turning it into what critics call an “outsourcing visa” that enables wage theft and creates indentured servitude conditions for foreign workers.
Describing himself as a kind of indentured servant, he said he’d been “forced to work in a criminal enterprise, and if he didn’t, he would be killed,” Starr testified.
The reparations legislation that has failed to advance includes a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have banned prisons from requiring inmates to work, which some consider state-sanctioned slavery or indentured servitude.
Bobo, her parents and the other white settlers benefit from an unjust system, always presented matter-of-factly, as the adults relish their domestic bliss at the expense of the indentured locals.
Here, the unsuspecting humans are a bunch of poor kids who steal a hauler with a plan of looting a deserted spaceship and fleeing their indenture.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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