What's the difference between coolie and indenture?

Coolie


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Cooly.
  • (n.) An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mathieu Flamini was too easily pulled away, and Diamé’s dinked finish was cooly executed.
  • (2) Ryan Giggs’ cooly slotted from 12 yards, before Gerrard was shown a straight red for a rash challenge on Carrick, ruining Kenny Dalglish’s return to management.
  • (3) In many ways, Comfort feels like a night-time counterpart to last year's dreamy Playin' Me by Cooly G, another debut album from a cutting-edge London producer overlooked by the Mercury panel: this year's shortlist may feature more dance albums than ever, but it's evident that those in charge simply don't know where to look beyond those whose commercial success makes them unignorable (Rudimental, Disclosure), or those that offer polite, 6music-friendly takes on dancefloor innovations of eight years ago (Jon Hopkins).
  • (4) Hillary was a New Zealand beekeeper and Norgay an illiterate "mountain coolie" (his own phrase) who was born in Tibet to a Nepali family and now lived in India – the Sherpa community, being high-altitude nomads, weren't easily caged by national boundaries.
  • (5) This formula allows 95 per cent of 3-4 month babies to produce controlled fall in body temperature at night, but most have to cooly by active thermoregulation, which relies heavily on the head as a route of heat loss.
  • (6) For six years, everything he recorded became a hit, and songs like Lost John, Bring A Little Water Sylvie, Cumberland Gap and Grand Coolie Dam followed each other into the charts as DIY skiffle bands across the country attempted to imitate his style.
  • (7) In his epoch-making collage of 1956, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, the living space is crowded with up-to‑the-minute objects of desire: the TV set, the vacuum cleaner, the tinned ham, the tape recorder, the body builder's muscles, the cone-shape coolie hat perched on the sexy naked housewife on the sofa.
  • (8) But Ramires, instantly making up for his earlier indiscretion, out did his compatriot with a cooly-taken strike just two minutes later, sweetly dinking the ball over Iker Casillas following a burst through the Madrid defence.The equaliser had galvanised the Premier League side who began to cause Madrid problems all over the pitch.
  • (9) It was a convenient fiction to treat the brown-skinned partner as merely his coolie.
  • (10) While early use was primarily restricted to Chinese coolies and Indian immigrant laborers, the 1970s saw drug use become the domain of the youth of Malaysia and achieve the proportions of a national crisis.
  • (11) When the Dutch colonised Indonesia in the early 19th century, one of their first tasks was to carve out vast mines on the island where locals and Chinese coolies worked side by side digging for dark specks of cassiterite – the main mineral in tin ore – to be used in alloys, conductors and tin plating.

Indenture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
  • (n.) A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
  • (v. t.) To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
  • (v. t.) To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.
  • (v. i.) To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clearly, the economic argument for allowing one industry a workforce of virtually indentured labor does not hold water.
  • (2) As a youth he was an apothecary's apprentice, surrendering his indentures at the age of 18 and entering medical school at the London Hospital.
  • (3) That was the novel where I wanted to move outside America as a race-based country, to a time before –when white indentured servants and black slaves worked in the field together, before it was useful to separate them.
  • (4) For one group of immigrants, however – the farm workers who sustain our food supply – there is reason to fear that what awaits them is not a path to citizenship, but their cemented status as indentured servants.
  • (5) Why don't we call this policy by the name it really is, namely the indentured servitude of our young people.
  • (6) The 'rule of indenture' is seen in closer affinity to these basic contradictions than the more gracious 'gentlemen's agreement'.
  • (7) These concerns are exacerbated by the domination of synthetic hormone research by industry and its indentured academics, by failure of the industries concerned to disclose their unpublished data, by their manipulation of published data, and by refusal to label milk and meat from cows treated with biosynthetic hormones, and by denial of consumers' rights to know.
  • (8) I left home and started my indentures as a trainee journalist.
  • (9) As long as you’re not crass enough to dig out your basement By contrast, those born in the 1980s have their careers limited by 25 years of indentured servitude to their mortgage provider.
  • (10) According to the 2014 trafficking in persons (TiP) report published by the US state department last week, a high proportion of Malaysia's estimated 2 million illegal migrant labourers fall prey to forced labour at the hands of their employers, recruitment companies or organised crime syndicates, who refuse payment, withhold their documents or force them into indentured servitude.
  • (11) As opposed, presumably, to allowing foreign corporations to indenture your people on near-slave wages to stitch football boots.
  • (12) Just in case, through sheer over-optimism, a Cridland-influenced proposal keeps them indentured until the last five years, or less, of healthy life.
  • (13) 6.50pm BST Resentment among federal employees forced to work without timely pay is growing, Guardian business correspondent Dominic Rushe (@ dominicru ) reports : Government employees forced to work with no pay during the US government shutdown are being treated like “indentured servants”, the head of their largest union said on Friday.
  • (14) From the serosal surface, a slight whitish indenture marks this area.
  • (15) But once in Malaysia they fall prey to forced labour at the hands of their employers, recruitment companies or organised crime syndicates, who refuse payment, withhold their documents or force them into indentured servitude.
  • (16) Albert Edwards, who heads the global strategy team at Société Générale said the chancellor's flagship Help to Buy programme was artificially inflating property prices and driving young people deeper into "indentured servitude".
  • (17) My family shipped them in as indentured servants,” a sixth-generation Cocos islander, John Clunies-Ross, said.
  • (18) The idea that Scotland is friendlier to foreigners or people of other ethnicities has proved remarkably stubborn, partly because the country has adopted such a bowdlerised version of its imperial history into which slaves, indentured labourers and massacres have only recently been admitted.
  • (19) The introduction of major epidemic diseases through the movements of French soldiers to and from India and the immigration of indentured laborers from India account for the high mortality and morbidity rates in the 18th and 19th centuries and later.
  • (20) After English occupation of the island in the early 1800s, epidemics became commonplace as indentured laborers transported from India replaced the emancipated slaves.

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