INDENTURES Synonyms

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• compatibility of observations

• harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters

• the thing arranged or agreed to

• the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

• the verbal act of agreeing

• the thing arranged or agreed to

• an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging

• an organized structure for arranging or classifying

• the spatial property of the way in which something is placed

• a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments

• the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

• an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each

• an advantageous purchase

• negotiate the terms of an exchange

• come to terms; arrive at an agreement

• United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

• an electrical force linking atoms

• British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

• a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

• a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest

• (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial

• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

• a connection that fastens things together

• a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents

• the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

• stick to firmly

• create social or emotional ties

• issue bonds on

• bring together in a common cause or emotion

• a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

• a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

• enter into a contractual arrangement

• engage by written agreement

• squeeze or press together

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• become smaller or draw together

• make smaller

• compress or concentrate

• make or become more narrow or restricted

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

• (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return

• enter into a covenant

• enter into a covenant or formal agreement

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a meeting arranged in advance

• a mutual promise to marry

• the act of giving someone a job

• employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

• contact by fitting together

• the act of sharing in the activities of a group

• the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

• the state of being obligated to do or pay something

• a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor

• a written promise to repay a debt

• a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply

• a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• the trade of a funeral director

• an order for goods to be exported or imported

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

• set in from the margin

• cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication

• make a depression into

• notch the edge of or make jagged

• bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

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

• the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

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

• the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions

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