sign up

See also: signup

English

Verb

sign up (third-person singular simple present signs up, present participle signing up, simple past and past participle signed up)

1. (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

   We signed up Bob for kitchen cleanup duty.

2. (intransitive) To add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something (including amateur, but not professional, teams)

   Terry signed up for the soccer team.

3. (intransitive) To agree to purchase some good or service.

   After much deliberation we decided to sign up for satellite TV.

Translations

to add a name to the list of people who are participating in something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: zapsat (cs)
• Finnish: ilmoittaa (fi), määrätä (fi)
• French: inscrire (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: anotar, apuntar, inscribir, matricular (gl)
• German: anmelden (de)
• Hungarian: (write down on something) felír (hu), (write down in something) beír (hu), (enrol) beírat (hu), (put someone down for an appointment) előjegyez (hu)
• Portuguese: subscrever (pt)
• Spanish: inscribir (es), alistar (es), enlistar (es) (Mexico)

to add one's own name to the list of people who are participating in something

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: zapsat se
• Esperanto: enskribiĝi, aliĝi, aniĝi
• Finnish: ilmoittautua (fi)
• French: s’inscrire (fr)
• German: anmelden (de)
• Hungarian: (register/subscribe) feliratkozik, (appy/register)} jelentkezik (hu), (register/check in) bejelentkezik (hu), (enrol) beiratkozik (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: zapisać się / zapisywać się
• Portuguese: cadastrar (pt) (pronominal)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: inscribirse, darse de alta, alistarse
• Swedish: anmäla (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

to agree to purchase some good or service

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tilata (fi)
• French: s’abonner (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: abonnieren (de)
• Hungarian: (order/book/reserve) megrendel (hu), (take out a subscription) előfizet (hu), (for an electronic service or system) regisztrál (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} liituma
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} melde på
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} inscriere

Derived terms

• sign me up (idiom: I'd like to take part in it or know more about it, too)

Anagrams

• gins up, pignus, pungis, sing up, spuing