单词 | to sign away |
释义 | > as lemmasto sign away to sign away transitive. To give up or relinquish, by or as if by contractual agreement. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > by signing subsign1605 subscribe1608 to sign away1689 1689 J. Collier Vindiciæ Juris Regii 17 Our Kings..had signed it [sc. authority] away in so many Words. a1735 G. Granville Genuine Wks. (1736) II. 200 It [sc. the mother's estate] was all signed away as much from the Children as the Father. 1782 R. Cumberland Anecd. Painters Spain II. 223 The pen which signed away her reputation and independence. 1846 C. Dickens Battle of Life i. 45 Signing away vague and enormous sums of money. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. xiv. 284 A man signs away a moiety of his substance. 1921 C. G. B. Bush Grinding xviii. 164 Marc will cajole her into signing away the plantation. 1972 Scholarly Publishing 3 182 Sometimes..he has practically to sign his life away to get his meagre five dollars or so. 2007 Time Out N.Y. 8 Mar. 8/2 To teach indigenous Amazonians to not sign away their land to mining and lumber concerns. < as lemmas |
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