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The correct spelling is indents.
How to pronounce indents
noun
Say it like: Ind-ent-s
The correct spelling is indents. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch. For example: "to indent the edge of paper"
Usage Examples
“to indent the edge of paper”
“indent a smooth surface with a hammer”
“to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- 2.A stamp; an impression.
- 3.A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- 4.A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
verb
- 1.To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- 2.To be cut, notched, or dented.
- 3.To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- 4.To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- 5.To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
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