Meanings
verbsign up (third-person singular simple present signs up, present participle signing up, simple past and past participle signed up)
present singular third person signs up · participle present signing up · participle past signed up · past signed up
- transitiveTo add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
We signed Bob up for kitchen cleanup duty.
- intransitivegovernmentTo enlist in the armed forces.
Didn't you hear? He's just signed up!
Synonyms: enlist
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something (including amateur, but not professional, teams).
verbTo enlist in the armed forces.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan inscriure, inscriure's
- inscriureto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- inscriure'sto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- apuntar-seto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
Chinese Mandarin 報名 /报名, 註冊 /注册
- 報名 /报名 (bàomíng)to add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- 註冊 /注册 (zhùcè)to add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
Czech zapsat, zapsat se
- zapsatto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- zapsat seto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
Esperanto anigi, enskribiĝi
- anigito add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- enskribiĝito add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- aliĝito add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- aniĝito add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
Finnish ilmoittaa, määrätä
- ilmoittaato add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- määrätäto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- ilmoittautuato add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- tilatato agree to purchase some good or service
French inscrire, s'inscrire
- inscrireto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- s'inscrireto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- s'abonnerto agree to purchase some good or service
German einschreiben, anmelden
- einschreibento add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- anmeldento add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- einschreibento add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- anmeldento add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- abonnierento agree to purchase some good or service
Hungarian felír, beír
- felírto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- beírto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- (enrol) beíratto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- előjegyezto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- feliratkozikto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- jelentkezikto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- bejelentkezikto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- (enrol) beiratkozikto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- megrendelto agree to purchase some good or service
- előfizetto agree to purchase some good or service
- regisztrálto agree to purchase some good or service
Polish zapisać się, zapisywać się
- zapisać sięto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- zapisywać sięto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
Portuguese subscrever, cadastrar
- subscreverto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- cadastrarto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- inscreverto agree to purchase some good or service
Russian запи́сывать, записа́ть
- запи́сывать (zapísyvatʹ)to add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- записа́ть (zapisátʹ)to add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- запи́сываться (zapísyvatʹsja)to add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- записа́ться (zapisátʹsja)to add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- подписываться (podpisyvatʹsja)to agree to purchase some good or service
- оформлять подписку (oformljatʹ podpisku)to agree to purchase some good or service
Spanish inscribir, alistar
- inscribirto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- alistarto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- enlistarto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- apuntarto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- registrarto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- matricularto add a name to the list of people who are participating in something
- inscribirseto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- darse de altato add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- alistarseto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- apuntarseto add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- matricularse ato add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
- matricularse ento add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
Swedish anmäla
- anmälato add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something
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APA
sign up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sign%20up
MLA
“sign up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sign%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sign up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sign%20up.
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