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Scrip vs Indenture - What's the difference?

scrip | indenture |

As nouns the difference between scrip and indenture

is that scrip is a small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc or scrip can be a scrap of paper or scrip can be a share certificate or scrip can be (informal|british) a medical prescription while indenture is (legal) a contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).

As a verb indenture is

to bind a person under such a contract.

scrip

English

(wikipedia scrip)

Etymology 1

An aphetism of (etyl) , a variant of escharpe, from (etyl) skreppa.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
    • Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
  • * 1964 , Nothing Like the Sun
    • A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
  • Small change.
  • * 1899, , The Brick Moon and Other Stories] , (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999, Etext #1633
    • In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip " was in the sixties the name for small change.

    Etymology 2

    Probably from a conflation of (m) and (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scrap of paper.
  • A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.
  • A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the .
  • Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.

    • Etymology 3

    Abbreviation of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A share certificate.

    • Etymology 4

    Abbreviation of (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, British) A medical prescription.

    • Anagrams

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    indenture

    English

    (wikipedia indenture)

    Alternative forms

    * endenture

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
  • (legal) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
  • An indentation.

    • Verb

    (indentur)
  • To bind a person under such a contract.
  • To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
    • Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.

    Derived terms

    * indenturedness *indentured servant * indentureship

    References

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