to sign over
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4.9
- phrasal verb
- /saɪn ˈoʊvər/
- Formal
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- If you want to sell your car, you must sign over the title to the new owner.
We want to buy this building and we want you to sign over the deal to them.
- We want to buy this building and we want you to sign over the deal to them.
- Here's the the the final word, a sacrificial blank check signed over to his loved ones.
Examples
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When he moved out of it, he signed it over in lieu of alimony and child support.
Fiction book (2001) -
I needed the option on that property signed over to my name.
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We want to buy this building and we want you to sign over the deal to them.
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My mother signed over her house.
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My father signed everything over to him.
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Scholars can be asked to sign over the final authority for their own critical works.
Academic text (1997) -
I agreed to sign over the property here to her in the event that I ever divorced her.
Fiction book (1990) -
Therefore, you must sign over ownership of this establishment to me, at which time, you become my employees.
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I signed over Mulligan's Mutual to her.
Fiction book (2000) -
The tribal council doesn't want to sign over the mining rights.
Synonyms
313
3.0
To hand someone or something to another person, an authority
296
2.8
Give something to someone because you have to
266
6.8
To give property or rights to another person
241
3.4
To make someone else the owner of something
39
8.2
To officially give control, ownership or rights to someone else
12
3.4
To be sold or given to a new owner
11
4.8
Give up rights or property by agreeing to it in writing
6
5.5
To officially give property or rights to someone
4
6.4
To give property to someone using a signed paper
1
7.4
Give ownership of property to another person using a legal document
1
4.3
To move from one owner to another when people buy or sell it
To change the name on the official papers of a car or house
To swap signed papers to make a property sale legally binding
Antonyms
How Transferred
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to transfer ownership by signing' is related to the literal parts: 'sign' (to affix a signature) and 'over' which can indicate transfer or movement across, so there is a compositional link. However, 'over' as a particle that signals legal/ownership transfer is somewhat idiomatic and part of a phrasal-verb pattern, so a B1 learner who only knows the basic senses may not reliably predict the legal-transfer meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrasal verb sign over comes from the simple image of a person making their sign on a paper to pass something over to someone else. So, it means 'to transfer ownership'.