SIGNED (UP OR ON) Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

signed (up or on)

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Definition of signed (up or on)

past tense of sign (up or on)

as in employed

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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According to the filing, Netflix employed an average of 342 staff in the UK in 2025, up from 263 the year before.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
Harte is no longer employed by the Naugatuck Board of Education, police said.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

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In December, Nvidia bought assets from the AI chip startup for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record and hired Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra and a group of engineers.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
The spike in arrests comes as the agency, infused with billions of dollars last summer by Congress, has also hired 12,000 new deportation officers and investigative agents.

— Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

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Summary Canadian universities have successfully recruited 64 international scholars, 48 from top American institutions like Harvard and MIT.

— Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Serving as the territory’s secretary of education between 2013 and 2017, overseeing all of its public schools from kindergarten through high school, he was recruited to Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 as a teacher.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

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