sign-up or sign·up [sahyn-uhp] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- an act or instance of signing up.
Origin of sign-up First recorded in 1945–50; noun use of verb phrase sign up Examples from the Web for sign-up Contemporary Examples of sign-up
The sign-up deadline for the Affordable Care Act has triggered a predictable series of jeremiads from the right.
100 Years of Right (And Left) Moves
Robert Shrum
March 31, 2014
Historical Examples of sign-up
The insignificant sum of two and sixpence secured me my sign-up for the remainder of the course.
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Word Origin and History for sign-up n.
“number who have signed up,” 1926, from the verbal phrase; see sign (v.) + up (adv.).