: having a sign
especially : having a plus or minus sign
signed numbers like +6 and −4

Examples of signed in a Sentence

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There were no private jets or lavish hotels booked to exchange the five-figure piece of signed cardboard. Andrew MacKie, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025 Encased in dust on a high shelf is a signed first edition of a Pol Pot biography that sold three hundred copies. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024 The 49ers also signed a center, Matt Hennessy, and re-signed tackle Sebastian Gutierrez to the practice squad. Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024 The selection stretches from signed and rare photography, fashion and art books to tomes about Louise Bourgeois and ones by Annie Ernaux, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for signed 

Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of signed was in 1873

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“Signed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/signed. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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