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sign-out
[ sahyn-out ]
noun
- an act, instance, or time of signing out.
sign out
verb
- adverb to sign (one's name) to indicate that one is leaving a place
he signed out for the evening
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of sign-out1
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]Example Sentences
Had he had taken her out of the jail, he said, their exit would have been recorded on surveillance video and sign-out sheets.
Sign-out sheets were kept among thousands of pages of jail records stacked in lopsided piles on an office floor.
He missed the 4:30 p.m. sign-out too.
On July 16, 2019, Cassidy was sent home without pay for two days for insubordination, accused of not properly following the company’s radio sign-out policy.
And shoppers created sign-out procedures to allow for toilet breaks and food runs.
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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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