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Definition
noun
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- A stamp; an impression.
- 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.
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
verb
- To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth“to indent the edge of paper”
- To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress“indent a smooth surface with a hammer”
- 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.
- To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
Source: Wiktionary
