indentured

noun

1. Now Rare indentation
2. a written contract or agreement: originally, it was in duplicate, the two copies having correspondingly notched edges for identification
3. a contract binding a person to work for another for a given length of time, as an apprentice to a master, or an immigrant to service in a colony
4. an official, authenticated list, inventory, etc.
5. Finance a document containing the terms under which bonds are issued

transitive verb indentured, indenturing

1. to bind by indenture
2. Archaic indent