sign-up

or sign·up

[ sahyn-uhp ]

noun

1. an act or instance of signing up.

sign up

verb

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sign-up¹

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

Idioms and Phrases

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]

Example Sentences

In his view, “only very, very desperate people” sign up for this, he said.

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Sign up and you can spend that extra money on spin classes, instead.

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Sign up to join the Kensington Presents mailing list for an invite to the next event.

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Sheldon becomes a professor, but no students sign up for his class because his reputation as being insufferable precedes him.

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It promises those who sign up that “you'll get a free lunch and a chance to meet and interact with Iowa GOP staffers.”

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Here I am now, lookin' to sign up a gover'ment hay charter, and he'll put me high and dry if this word is passed along again.

From Project Gutenberg

We'll be sailing some day next week and you can sign up before the Commissioner any time you're ready.

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I heard him talking to a boy the very first day I was in school, standing in line to sign up.

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I even took lessons from the man who had the sign up, you remember, ‘Americans taught to speak English!’

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Ef yuh will step over to my office, Ive got a line o men waitin to sign up.

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Related Words

• appoint
• bring in
• draft
• employ
• engage
• enlist
• lease
• obtain
• pick
• promise
• rent
• retain
• select