signs (up or on)

verb

present tense third-person singular of sign (up or on)
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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  1. employs
  2. hires
  3. recruits
Verb
  • Siemens Healthineers is a medical technology company headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, and employs 74,000 people worldwide.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Starship also employs different engines than the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy — Raptors rather than Merlins.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of employs
Verb
  • Verity can’t finish her book series for mysterious reasons, so Jeremy hires Lowen to do so for her.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Whether that is a potential path forward is impossible to predict until Crane hires a new head of baseball operations.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of hires
Verb
  • Monét released a trailer for Frequency of Love, which recruits a range of collaborators across R&B, including SZA, Bruno Mars, Leon Thomas, Bryson Tiller, Chlöe and Lucky Daye.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The Lioness Program recruits female operatives who go undercover and infiltrate the inner circles of enemy targets by getting close to the women connected to them.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of recruits
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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 10 Oct. 2026.

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