What is the meaning of Indenture?

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

A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.

A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.

An indentation; a recess.

To bind a person under such a contract.

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

Source: wiktionary.org