to sign on
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3.4
- phrasal verb
- /saɪn ɑn/
:
apuntarse
- After reviewing the job offer, she decided to sign on as a new employee at the marketing firm.
- schools sign on
Were you wary when you signed on for Roseanne?
- Were you wary when you signed on for Roseanne?
- And that's why Steve and I should both sign on this constitutional amendment.
- Well, that sounds like a back ended insult and I sign on to it.
- But Greg Brockman, who is the president of Open AI, he was the first kind of person to sign on to, I'm going to make this happen.
- These are principles that all the Wikipedians sign on to and foremost among them is is accuracy and objective truth.
- I'd met him during the time when he was governor, when we were crafting a health plan that Southern Democrats could sign on to.
- A lot of the doctors that have signed on and endorsed gender affirming care believe that they are civil rights heroes.
- And he said, boy, if we had signed on for that, it would have changed our world as we know it in terms of coverage and quality and cost and and all that.
- He's now been signed on to ESPN, so he's doing great.
- This dismantling of the federal government, these billionaires grabbing money from working class Americans the Democrats have now signed on to.
- So the actor signs on if, if, if Brad Pitt and and Tom Cruise sign on to your movie, people will throw money at you.
- I have a higher for psychiatrist who signed on with me about six weeks ago and that's been going really well.
Examples
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Soon after that, I hope to announce that 100 countries have signed on.
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Would you be willing to sign on and advise me on this kind of research?
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You learn very quickly that young men and women are ready to sign on for community and public service if only somebody asked them.
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Tell me, after you signed on, did you ask the director to consider me for the part?
Fiction book (2001) -
If you sign on to be a professional athlete, you made your commitment.
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Jim: I'm gonna go down to the mine and sign on for work.
Fiction book (1999) -
Well, it'd help me to understand... why a man like you would sign on for a job like this.
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And when someone else does sign on, there's a celebration at the end of June.
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In truth, he found it easier to sign on with agencies and do various psychiatric locums.
Fiction book (1998) -
Many engineering students signed on as strikebreakers, and several almost immediately tasted combat.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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1.0
To write your name on a paper to show you agree
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1.3
To join an activity or service by giving your name
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4.3
Officially agree to something by writing your name on a document
How Committed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination of 'sign' (to register or mark agreement) and 'on' (indicating joining or being active) gives a plausible cue that this involves registering or joining a service, so learners may infer a general sense of entering or joining. However, the precise computing meaning—authenticating by entering credentials—is a metaphorical extension from physical signing and not strictly derivable from the literal senses, so it is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Sign on comes from the simple act of writing your name on a paper or a list to show you agree to join, for example signing a job contract or a ship's crew list. That's why sign on means 'to agree to start work or join an organization'.