Meanings
nounsignup (plural signups)
plural signups
- alternativeAlternative spelling of sign-up.
The deal was a critical part of filling loopholes in Microsoft's distribution strategy, ensuring that IE and not Netscape had widespread distribution to new users with new PCs and to existing PC users new to the Internet at the time of ISP signups.
2012, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern, The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, page 258
Origin
Deverbal from sign up.
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signup. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signup
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“signup.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signup. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “signup,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signup.
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