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sign off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sign offverb

    cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations

GCIDE

  1. sign offverb

    To terminate a communication, especially one conducted by radio waves; to terminate a broadcast over radio or television; as, this is your reporter in Cairo, signing off.

Wiktionary

  1. sign offnoun

    Term used to describe the closing of a radio or television station's studios and cessation of a broadcasting signal, usually during the overnight hours.

  2. sign offverb

    To log off; to stop using a computer, radio, etc., especially to stop talking.

  3. sign offverb

    To cease broadcasting a radio or television signal, usually at the end of a broadcasting day.

  4. sign offverb

    to give one's official approval to something for which it is needed

ChatGPT

  1. sign off

    To sign off means to give approval, consent, or acknowledgment to something, often by physically signing a document or virtually approving a decision or project. It can also refer to the act of concluding a broadcast, message, or performance. It implies the ending of responsibility or association with a particular matter.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sign off in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sign off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sign off in a Sentence

  1. California Assembly member Adam Gray:

    A theme you are going to see develop over the summer is that elected officials need to be at the helm on this, the extent to which we're being asked to sign off on big extensions and a lot of money and let unelected bureaucrats decide where it's spent – that's not going to be happening anymore.

  2. Nuzhat Naweed:

    We didn't have to go back and keep getting sign off. We were fully empowered and trusted to develop this app by senior management.

  3. Per Hammarlund:

    Brazil has had a particularly significant impact on overall issuance as Petrobras used to be the single largest issuer in EM before the corruption scandal caused a delay in auditors to sign off on its 3Q 14 results.

  4. Joe Fenty:

    My message for him would be show leadership and voice support for this benefit, and when it comes across his desk to please sign off on it. It has been too long. Please help expedite it.

  5. Dolly Parton:

    We've got two scripts and we're waiting for the last rewrite, so as soon as we all sign off on that, I'd say in the next few months we'll be in production.


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