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signing

British  
/ ˈsaɪnɪŋ /

noun

  1. a specific set of manual signs used to communicate with deaf people

"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

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I was torn between signing and going on to a four-year college on a scholarship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Large cloud and AI customers are signing longer-term supply commitments.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

He has been like a new signing, with his first appearances coming in their warm-up games but he is new to the top level.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Sandisk is increasingly signing multiyear agreements with customers with fixed pricing for a strating period and then variable pricing through the rest of the deal.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

He had a limitless capacity for being everywhere, for appearing on the flight line when he was supposed to be signing weekend passes.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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