signed (up or on)

verb

Definition of signed (up or on)next
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for signed (up or on)
  1. employed
  2. hired
  3. recruited
Verb
  • On average, 83 percent of IFM students are employed within one year of finishing their studies, Romatet said.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Cooper said in a statement to CBS News Philadelphia that Check is no longer employed by the hospital.
    — CBS Philadelphia, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of employed
Verb
  • DeMarco had no prior WNBA experience before being hired by New York.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Morales was hired by ICE in August 2025 and had more training than other hires, his attorney, David Lindenmuth, said.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of hired
Verb
  • Guitarricadelafuente — who co-stars in the film alongside Milo Quifes and Carlos González — plays Sebastián, a young musician (trumpeter) forcibly recruited by Franco’s forces after surviving an attack during the Spanish Civil War.
    — Franchesca Guim, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Prosecutors said Clase, who had completed the fourth season of a $20 million, five-year contract, began providing information about his pitches to bettors in 2023 and recruited Ortiz into the scheme in 2025.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of recruited
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“Signed (up or on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/signed%20%28up%20or%20on%29. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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