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  • sign-up
    sign-up
    noun
    an act or instance of signing up.
  • sign up
    sign up
    verb
    (adverb) to enlist or cause to enlist, as for military service
Synonyms

sign-up

American  
[sahyn-uhp] / ˈsaɪnˌʌp /
Or signup

noun

  • sign-ups
    plural
  1. an act or instance of signing up.


sign up British  

verb

  1. (adverb) to enlist or cause to enlist, as for military service

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sign up Idioms  
  1. Enlist in an organization; also, register or subscribe to something. For example, He signed up for four years in the navy, or Are you planning to sign up for that pottery class? [Early 1900s]


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of sign-up

First recorded in 1945–50; noun use of verb phrase sign up


Example Sentences

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To avoid a pre-sale which she felt scalpers could exploit, Raye said the sign-up list had been manually reviewed to identify a shortlist of people believed to be "real fans".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

I have opened new cards to get the free sign-up bonuses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

And let’s not forget the influencers who flood our social-media feeds with tantalizing sign-up bonuses that will, they suggest in breathless posts, turn you into a jet-setter like them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

No one forced him to sign-up, he said, but the idea was constantly present.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

"Henderson was at the factory on sign-up day," Nancy said.

From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene

“You kind of have no choice when that’s your real life and you sign up to do something like this,” Ovard says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Open enrollment, which typically stretches several weeks into November, is when workers sign up for healthcare plans and fringe benefits for the coming year.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Early drafts of the EU position seen by the BBC make clear they would only sign up to a goal on electrification if it did not allow countries to meet the target using gas.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

No, you didn’t sign up to be an aircraft sleuth, but this will help avoid disappointment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“We’re going to sign up to 1950s-date for the vuvv.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

It is understood that the majority of the data accessed was restricted to customer email addresses and related to WiFi sign-ups within the airports' terminals.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

They accounted for 65% of American Express’s new consumer accounts globally in the second quarter, and more than three-quarters of Amex’s premium credit card sign-ups in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The service saw 2.8 million sign-ups in June, its strongest month since the service’s launch last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

There have now been 7 million sign-ups, and 1.7 million of those accounts are eligible for the $1,000 in seed money, according to fresh figures from the Treasury Department.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

In the morning the principal had announced sign-ups for football and cheerleading and other stuff.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli

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