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 park employs an average of 1,400 workers, Turner said.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • All general managers employed by Edmonton in these years sent away picks and prospects in an effort to win the Stanley Cup.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of employ
Verb
  • Key to this initial foothold in the industry was grabbing the attention of Uptown CEO Andre Harrell, who hired him as an intern and ushered him into the label’s A&R department.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Jones hired Kutler away from CNN in 2022, and Jones will stay at MSNBC in an advisory role until March.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of hire
Verb
  • Burnett recruited leading Americana, folk and bluegrass music virtuosos including Alison Krauss, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Larkin Poe and Lucius to appear on Look Up, many on multiple tracks.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, another research group in Singapore is currently recruiting for a study on the Delta variant.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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 19 Jan. 2025.

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