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SIGN AWAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sign away mean?
• SIGN AWAY (verb)
The verb SIGN AWAY has 1 sense:
1. formally assign ownership of
Familiarity information: SIGN AWAY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formally assign ownership of
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
sign away; sign over
Context example:
She signed away her rights
Hypernyms (to "sign away" is one way to...):
cede; deliver; give up; surrender (relinquish possession or control over)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Context examples
Leave fame and coin alone, sign away on a ship to-morrow, and go back to your sea.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
These two, finding that through his ignorance of the language he was helpless in their hands, had kept him a prisoner, and had endeavoured by cruelty and starvation to make him sign away his own and his sister’s property.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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