indentured labourer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofindentureandlabourer
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indenture
verb[T]
uk/ɪnˈden.tʃər/us/ɪnˈden.tʃɚ/
(in the past) to officially agree that someone, often a young person, will work for someone else, especially in order to learn ...
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labourer
noun[C]
uk/ˈleɪ.bər.ər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ.ɚ/
a person who does unskilled physical work, ...
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The gulf between noble and ignoble was very large, but the difference between a freeman and anindenturedlabourerwas small.
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He was told to lie to the magistrate who registered him as anindenturedlabourer.
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In the first place, the recruitment of indentured labourers was drawing to a close.
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I would like to ask whether the prosperity of the island does not depend in a very large measure upon the treatment of indentured labourers?
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There are 40,000 indentured labourers in these islands, but the official statistics show that there are from 30,000 to 60,000.
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These indentured labourers are not people who are competent to enter into contracts of their own free will.
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In regard to the exportation of indentured labourers to the islands, he told us that new regulations of a satisfactory description had lately been introduced.
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Is the phrase "indentured labourers" an accurate description?
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In 1922, when a large number of the contracts of these indentured labourers expired, not one of the men was returned.
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There should be an annual accretion of £25,000, or, in other words, there should be at the present time £160,000 standing to the credit of those indentured labourers.
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They bound themselves to work as indentured labourers for a set number of years on the plantations.
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Between 1834 and 1921, around half a million indentured labourers were present on the island.
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These indentured labourers were mostly made up of marginal farmers.
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Living conditions on the sugar cane plantations, on which most of the "girmityas" (indentured labourers) worked, were often squalid, degrading and brutal.
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