as in employs
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 signs (up or on)
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Matcha House now employs about 10 part-time workers, and Yeung no longer needs to be behind the counter every day.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
19 June 2026 -
The company now employs more than 1,600 staff members and works with an additional network of freelance creators and production partners.—
Lin Ying-Hsuan,
Variety,
18 June 2026
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Simone hires Zoe as her assistant, in what appears to be a dream job.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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When her father hires a young bodyguard to protect her, the disparate personalities can’t help but find themselves, well, drawn to each other.—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 June 2026
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Curtis plays Violet Olvido, a journalist who begins investigating a string of killings linked to a shadowy international outsourcing company that recruits remote workers across the Philippines.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 June 2026
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According to an article in Nature Reviews Psychology, seeing others in pain often recruits the same brain systems as feeling pain ourselves, and can be distressing, especially for highly empathetic people.—
Michele Promaulayko,
Allure,
17 June 2026
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“Signs (up or on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/signs%20%28up%20or%20on%29. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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