SIGN (UP OR ON) Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

sign (up or on)

verb

Definition of sign (up or on)

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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The slumping kicker carried his equipment bag across the Chiefs’ practice field, still employed here, at least for the moment.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
The brands that do best are those that employ a mix of influencer tiers, says Laura Rocha Pulido, head of insights at influencer marketing and analytics platform Lefty.

— Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of employ

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Jennifer Shuford, who had been Texas’s health commissioner, was part of a team hired to restore confidence in the agency.

— Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Spoelstra and May became even closer when the Heat hired his son, Jack May, as a video room intern a few years ago.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of hire

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This cycle, Scudder, with help from the political-action committee Texas Majority, set out to make sure that no race in the state went uncontested, and successfully recruited candidates for each of a hundred and thirty-seven seats.

— Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026
That would begin the process of hiring an executive director, developing operational procedures and recruiting mental health professionals and other responders.

— Chevall Pryce, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of recruit

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