indent
noun/ˈɪndent/
/ˈɪndent/
- indent (for something) (business, especially British English) an official order for goods or equipment
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- (also indentation)a space left at the beginning of a line of print or writing
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘give a zigzag outline to, divide by a zigzag line’): from Anglo-Norman French endenter or medieval Latin indentare, from en-, in- ‘into’ + Latin dens, dent- ‘tooth’.
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