Apprentice vs. Indenture — What's the Difference?

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

An indenture is a legal contract that reflects or covers a debt or purchase obligation. It specifically refers to two types of practices: in historical usage, an indentured servant status, and in modern usage, it is an instrument used for commercial debt or real estate transaction.

One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.

Often indentures A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term.

A beginner; a learner.

A deed executed by more than one party.

To work as an apprentice

An instrument or agreement specifying the terms of a bond or trust.

To engage as an apprentice

A document separated into portions so as to create indentations that allow the holders of the separate portions to match up in order to confirm authenticity.

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

To bind into the service of another by indenture.

(historical) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

(legal) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).

(dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.

A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.

(transitive) To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

An indentation; a recess.

(transitive) To be an apprentice to.

(legal) To bind a person under such a contract.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.

A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate, sometimes with the edges indented for purpose of identification; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.

To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

A contract by which anyone is bound to service.

Works for an expert to learn a trade

To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

Be or work as an apprentice;

To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.

In training;

To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.

A concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)

Formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt

A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term

The space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

Bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant;