sign on
UK informal — phrasal verb with sign /saɪn/ verbDefinition
› to sign a form at a government office to say that you do not have a job and that you want to receive benefit (= money paid by the government)Unemployment
(Definition of sign on from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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