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)

(transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
We signed up Bob for kitchen cleanup duty.
(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.
(intransitive) To agree to purchase some good or service.
After much deliberation we decided to sign up for satellite TV.

Synonyms

(to add name to participation-list): register, reserve, book, schedule, enroll

Derived terms

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

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)
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)
Russian: запи́сывать (ru) impf (zapísyvatʹ), записа́ть (ru) pf (zapisátʹ)
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: 報名／报名 (zh) (bàomíng), 註冊／注册 (zh) (zhùcè)
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)
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: запи́сываться (ru) impf (zapísyvatʹsja), записа́ться (ru) pf (zapisátʹsja)
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)
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
Portuguese: inscrever(-se)
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
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} inscriere

Anagrams

gins up, pignus, pungis, sing up, spuing