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)
Verb
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Professors of cultural studies, or history, or the arts, have long seen themselves as critics of institutions, including the universities that employ them.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2025 -
The Conversation — The Trump administration’s firing and furloughing of tens of thousands of federal workers and contractors have obviously caused economic hardship for Americans employed in national parks, research labs and dozens of government agencies.—
Jeffrey Anvari-Clark,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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Maryland will hire a new athletic director, and that person will have the chance to decide what kind of department the state’s flagship university should have.—
Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2025
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When testing someone, Ari stays in frequent communication with the person who hired her.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps they were recruited from Trump’s central casting of the mind.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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According to court records, Bluer, who was 31 at the time, recruited a 19-year-old and a 12-year-old to spray paint racist symbols on the church.—
Natalie Demaree,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2025
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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 2 Apr. 2025.
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