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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sign language, signingnoun

    language expressed by visible hand gestures

GCIDE

  1. signingnoun

    The procedure or process of communicating by use of a sign language.

Wiktionary

  1. signingnoun

    The act of concluding a contract, especially by an athlete or entertainer with a company

  2. signingnoun

    A player signed by a club

ChatGPT

  1. signing

    Signing is the act of writing one's signature or name as an endorsement, approval, confirmation, or authentication of a document. It can also refer to the act of communicating using gestures and hand movements, particularly in the context of sign language used by the hearing impaired community.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Signing

    of Sign

  2. Etymology: [Participle of sign, sense 3.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of signing in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of signing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of signing in a Sentence

  1. Jerome Valcke:

    I am signing contracts every day, everything has the signature of the general secretary, but it's not because I am signing everything that I am responsible for the way people are acting around the world.

  2. Nancy Pelosi:

    When Congress passed this legislation, frankly, we jumped for joy, this was so exciting because of the transformative difference this law would make for America's working families. CRITICS SLAM PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR ‘ CELEBRATING ’ SIGNING OF INFLATION REDUCTION ACT : ‘ SLAP IN THE FACE ’ President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last month after it passed through Congress along party lines, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. The act, lawmakers said, was intended to combat climate change, address health care costs and raise taxes on large corporations. But midway into September, a new report indicated inflation rose more than expected in August, squeezing U.S. households even as the cost of gasoline fell and continued to create a political headache for the president. The Labor Department said Earlier Tuesday that the consumer price index – a broad measure of the price for everyday goods, including gasoline groceries, and rents – rose 8.3 % in August from a year ago. Prices climbed 0.1 % in the one-month period from July. President Joe Biden speaks before signing H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. ( AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Those figures were both higher than the 8.1 % headline figure and 0.1 % monthly decline forecast by Refinitiv economists, a worrisome sign for theFederal Reserveas it seeks to cool price gains and tame consumer demand with an aggressive interest rate hike campaign. Stock futures tanked on the surprisingly hot report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 400 points. Earlier Earlier Tuesday, the president released a statement saying it.

  3. Chuck Wexler:

    Departments around the country … are offering between $ 25,000 and $ 30,000 signing bonuses, you’ve got a national shortage of applicants which has forced police departments to do unprecedented things like offering signing bonuses and, in some cases, modifying the standards for hiring.

  4. Charles Day:

    If you’re going to sign something, your signature is extremely important and valuable, if you’re signing a tax return, have a discussion about what you’re signing. If the other person gets annoyed and doesn’t want to explain anything, the more they resist, the more you should want to know.

  5. John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]:

    Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.

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