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sign-out

[ sahyn-out ]

noun

  1. an act, instance, or time of signing out.


sign out

verb

  1. adverb to sign (one's name) to indicate that one is leaving a place

    he signed out for the evening

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sign-out1

First recorded in 1945–50; noun use of verb phrase sign out
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Idioms and Phrases

Record the departure of a person or the removal of an object, as in He turned in his room key and signed out about an hour ago , or I asked the librarian how many books I could sign out . [c. 1930]
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Example Sentences

Would you put a sign out that said ‘My home is a gun-free zone?’

One day he went over there, and sure enough there was a sign out, "Moblirte Wohnung zu Vermiethen."

I'll fix the sign-out sheet, but you go to your cabin and get yourself at least four hours of sleep.

He has a sign out "Attorney and Pension Agent," and writes and talks like one of the greatest of men.

He bought the goods at a Fourth Avenue antique store, and hung a sign-out: 'Able-bodied hal—halberdier wanted.

Ringg told me there is a vacancy among the Astrogators, and I want to sign out.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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