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PRONUNCIATION OF INDENTURESHIP

indentureship  [ɪnˈdɛntʃəˌʃɪp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDENTURESHIP

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indentureship is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INDENTURESHIP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

indentureship

Indentured servant

Indentured servitude was a voluntary labour system whereby young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere. It was especially used as a way for poor youth in Britain and the German states to get passage to the American colonies. They would work for a fixed number of years, then be free to work on their own. The employer purchased the indenture from the sea captain who brought the youths over; he did so because he needed labour. Some worked as farmers or helpers for farm wives, some were apprenticed to craftsmen. Both sides were legally obligated to meet the terms, which were enforced by local American courts. Runaways were sought out and returned. About half of the white immigrants to the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries were indentured.

Definition of indentureship in the English dictionary

The definition of indentureship in the dictionary is period of being indentured.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDENTURESHIP


airship
ˈɛəˌʃɪp
ambassadorship
æmˈbæsədəˌʃɪp
authorship
ˈɔːθəˌʃɪp
benchership
ˈbɛntʃəˌʃɪp
censorship
ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp
co-authorship
kəʊˈɔːθəˌʃɪp
controllership
kənˈtrəʊləˌʃɪp
creatureship
ˈkriːtʃəˌʃɪp
curatorship
kjʊˈreɪtəˌʃɪp
dictatorship
dɪkˈteɪtəˌʃɪp
distributorship
dɪˈstrɪbjʊtəˌʃɪp
eldership
ˈeldəˌʃɪp
followership
ˈfɒləʊəˌʃɪp
governorship
ˈɡʌvənəˌʃɪp
lectureship
ˈlɛktʃəˌʃɪp
mastership
ˈmɑːstəˌʃɪp
membership
ˈmɛmbəˌʃɪp
ministership
ˈmɪnɪstəˌʃɪp
ridership
ˈraɪdəˌʃɪp
rulership
ˈruːləˌʃɪp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDENTURESHIP

indemonstrable
indemonstrably
indene
indent
indentation
indenter
indention
indentor
indenture
indentures
independence
Independence Day
independencies
independency
independent
independent clause
independent jaw chuck
Independent Order of Oddfellows
Independent Order of Rechabites
independent school

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDENTURESHIP

acquaintanceship
apostleship
apprenticeship
associateship
battleship
comradeship
discipleship
judgeship
leadership
mateship
modern apprenticeship
noviceship
prenticeship
primateship
reship
spaceship
squireship
thaneship
traineeship
trusteeship
voivodeship

Synonyms and antonyms of indentureship in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «indentureship» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDENTURESHIP

Find out the translation of indentureship to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of indentureship from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indentureship» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

indentureship
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la servidumbre
570 millions of speakers

English

indentureship
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

indentureship
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

indentureship
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

indentureship
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indentureship
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

indentureship
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indentureship
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Indentureship
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

indentureship
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

indentureship
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

indentureship
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indentureship
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

indentureship
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

indentureship
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इंडेंटशिप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

indentureship
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indentureship
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

indentureship
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

indentureship
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indentureship
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

indentureship
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

indentureship
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

indentureship
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

indentureship
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indentureship

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDENTURESHIP»

The term «indentureship» is normally little used and occupies the 148.095 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDENTURESHIP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indentureship

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDENTURESHIP»

Discover the use of indentureship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indentureship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in ...
Directly crediting Tinker, they argue that "East Indian indentureship turned out to be, as Hugh Tinker wrote, 'a new system of slavery'" (3). Dabydeen and Samaroo state that "[ijndentureship, like slavery, furthered the creation of a new ...
Patrick Taylor, 2001
2
East Indianness in the West Indies: Representations of ...
Drawing on the works of anglophone and francophone Caribbean poet-theorists of creolization such as Derek Walcott, George Lamming, David Dabydeen, and Edouard Glissant, I analyze post-indenture fictions developed alongside creolization's ...
Atreyee Phukan, 2006
3
Guyana: From State Control to Free Markets
The response to this labor shortage by the British plantation owners was indentureship. Portuguese laborers were brought to Guyana as the first indentured workers, but as soon as they fulfilled their indentured contracts they left the sugar ...
John Gafar, 2003
4
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public ...
The novel's contestation of hegemonic colonial, national, and diasporic framings of sexuality and home spaces must be read against the sexual, racial, and gendered repercussions of indentureship in Trinidad. Clearly there is a risk in using a ...
Gayatri Gopinath, 2005
5
Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in ...
M illions Figure It The Atlantic Slave Trade Indentureship Slavery in the Caribbean was succeeded by Indian indentureship during the period of 1838- 1917. According to Moses Seenarine: From the 1500s onwards, European settlers colonized ...
Seodial Frank Hubert Deena, 2009
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New Homelands : Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, ...
Some of the social problems associated with the life of indentureship, such as gender inequality and overseer brutality, were built into the arrangements of the system and were found in each of the locations where indentured workers were ...
Paul Younger Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies McMaster University, 2009
7
Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana
Regulation of marriage was not only the prerogative of the state; indeed in the post-indentureship period it would become a principal site around which the Indo -Guyanese community would stake a claim for cultural recognition and equality.
Linda Peake, D. Alissa Trotz, 2002
8
General History of the Caribbean: Methodology and ...
indentureship in 1921, and their plight became all the more acute in the depression of the 1950s. In 1987 Emmer was challenged directly by Rosemarijn Hoefte in her study of indentured women in Suriname during the late nineteenth and ...
B. W. Higman, 1999
9
Caribbean Cultural Identities
There is also, on occasion, that other popularized claim that East Indian and white indentureship, but particularly East Indian indentureship, was not particularly different from slavery. Well, let us look at the reality evident in a few samples of ...
Glyne A. Griffith, 2001
10
LIFE SKILLS TRAINING - Critical Reflective Approach: ...
What achievements and challenges existed within the history of Africa and India before enslavement and indentureship? 2. Discuss the major contributions to one's cultural heritage and achievements made by descendants of the Diaspora  ...
Ceronne Prevatt and Dianne Hyles, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDENTURESHIP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indentureship is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Regional Cultural Committee criticises Dominican Republic
... Committee wishes to remind the region that our nations were all formed from the same history of colonialism, enslavement and indentureship ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
2
Secrets of the Great House
But by the end of their five-year indentureship, the vast majority of immigrants would choose to stay, accepting Crown land instead of the free ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
3
Selling Jamaica to 'Mr Chin'
The new Chinese claim that the old Chinese are unpatriotic because they did not return to China after indentureship. And these arrogant new ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jul 15»
4
What does personal modesty have to do with political rightness?
This country has not produced a true patriot except for those who resisted slavery and indentureship, without ideology or political affiliation. «Stabroek News, Jun 15»
5
Does Hollywood Think It's Not As Good As It Used to Be? Apparently …
Under that indentureship, fine actors and directors and writers were brutally deprived of freedom, true. But of film excellence they and we had a ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
6
Celebrating our heritage
Indian indentureship occurred from 1845 to 1917. The labourers brought their families along and it was not uncommon to place people from the ... «Trinidad News, May 15»
7
Indian Arrival—The Holy Waters
Since indentureship, Hindus have shown great reverence for Nature. Their places of pilgrimage include rivers, lakes or places near the sea. «Trinidad Guardian, May 15»
8
Treatment of traditional folk religions in creative works
Under the institutions of colonialism, slavery and indentureship there has been a long and sometimes bitter history of hostile attitudes and ... «Stabroek News, May 15»
9
A richer inheritance than gold
It was Mr Razack's grandfather who had heard of Abdul Aziz's Islamic education, and who had helped to arrange for his indentureship to be ... «Trinidad Guardian, Apr 15»
10
It is possible to be Indian and Guyanese or African and Guyanese
With forced migration, enslavement and indentureship they fought and died for the right to maintain their culture. They held onto and passed ... «Stabroek News, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Indentureship [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/indentureship>. Apr 2024 ».
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