sign (up or on)

verb

Definition of sign (up or on)next
as in to employ
to provide with a paying job the sports shoe company recently signed up the nation's top female college basketball player to plug its products

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sign (up or on)
  1. employ
  2. hire
  3. recruit
Verb
  • The Atlanta artist employs his baby voice, repetition, and insatiable thirst for women for a one-minute, 25-second banger.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Alabama, for instance, employs 40,000 federal workers, nearly as many as New York’s 53,000, despite a population one-quarter the size.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of employ
Verb
  • Authenticity was hot, hot, hot: the Rothschilds who hired Samson had been satisfied with shiny new furniture in the style of the eighteenth century, but the robber barons adding to Asher’s fortune wanted to pad their pedigrees with originals.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • These companies often also hire too fast and onboard too many people, especially when revenue appears to have turned a corner.
    Agur Jõgi, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of hire
Verb
  • Amid ongoing security risks and uncertainty over Israel’s future, many are opting to relocate to Europe, where overburdened health care systems actively recruit skilled practitioners from abroad.
    Samuel Burke, Fortune Europe, 27 Nov. 2024
  • This multi-pronged approach starts with recruiting our sharpest young people into teaching and rewarding them by paying them fairly.
    Reynold Verret, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of recruit
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“Sign (up or on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sign%20%28up%20or%20on%29. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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