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sign-on en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from sign on.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The username and password for logging in to a computer account.
    • No one likes to continually update and remember multiple passwords and sign-ons, so if it's affordable, try to keep the security as simple as possible. 2014, Elizabeth Keathley, Digital Asset Management, →ISBN:
    • Thus preparers needed to have their own sign-ons to the system in order to complete the report, and plan administrators need to obtain their own electronic signature credentials (a PIN) to the EFAST2 system. 2016, Balser Group, Mandated Benefits Compliance Guide 2016 W/ Cd, →ISBN, page 5-19:
    • Considering the large number of applications in healthcare, multiple sign-ons can become a significant burden to the users. 2014, Thomas Payne, Practical Guide to Clinical Computing Systems, →ISBN:
    • A user access profile that contains a number of individual system and information access rights can simplify life for the users (there is only one set of information to remember and therefore fewer written records to comporomise) and for the system administrator (it is easier to control and monitor access rights by an individual and to concentrate on tightening and improving security rather than administering multiple sign-ons). 2015, Alan Calder, Steve Watkins, IT Governance: An International Guide to Data Security and ISO27001/ISO27002, →ISBN:
  2. (countable, uncountable) An attempt to log in.
    • Daily sign-ons are reported by exceptions, i.e. by who has not signed on each day. 2012, Abdulrahman Alghamdi, Tracking Student Record, →ISBN, page 20:
    • If the number of attempted sign-ons reaches the threshold value in the security software, the system will respond. 1998, Martin A. Krist, Standard for Auditing Computer Applications, →ISBN:
    • I'll get the passwords attempted in the failed sign-ons. 2012, Rick Sutcliffe, The Builder, →ISBN:
  3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) An instance of signing on to something.
    • Please find the larger group sign-on letter attached for comments/feedback. Send any comments to Daniel Dawes at: ***@*** by Tuesday, April 28. Remember -- this is just a draft. After this letter has been vetted by you all, we will send out a final copy right after sign-ons. 2016, Daniel E. Dawes, 150 Years of ObamaCare, →ISBN, page 111:
    • The work of getting sign-ons, for example, was also beneficial because it literally facilitated talking among strangers, and after one sign-on was done, a person who had been approached as a stranger the first time could now be spoken to as a colleague to see whether she or he might be interested in being part of a group working on a project or action. 2006, Raymond A. Smith, Patricia D. Siplon, Drugs Into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism, →ISBN, page 108:
    • Some legislative aides in Washington suggest that church lobbyists do need to be discriminating in their sign-ons. 1996, Keith Graber Miller, Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves, →ISBN:
  4. (countable, uncountable) A person who signs on to something.
    • I got a call from the crew relations specialist that the sign-on had arrived, and they were taken to the so-called conference room for the sign-on process. 2012, Ebed Louis, Screwed at Sea: The Devilish Gleam of Equis Cruise Lines, →ISBN, page 28:
    • The early sign-ons were already picking their way through the buffet, but the majority of the 3,500 guests had yet to arrive. 2009, Brian David Bruns, Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline, →ISBN, page 164:
  5. (countable, uncountable) A verbal script that is repeated at the start of every instance of something, as a form of greeting and identification.
    • We got the news from Gabriel Heater whose sign-on was “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America, let's go to press;" 2013, Violet “Cookie” Lynch, Years Into Lives: Pages from Our Family Stories, →ISBN, page 106:
    • These sign-ons and sign-offs have evolved through the years and have become “MFM” and “YFM.” This way, my entire family is included in the hellos and good-byes. 2005, Mario Bosquez, The Chalupa Rules, →ISBN:
    • In an effort to further reduce voice-radio frequency congestion with the use of data link, some crew members have suggested that no verbal sign-ons be required by the flight crews whenever an ATC frequency change occurs. 1991, Charles E. Knox, Charles Harris Scanlon, Flight tests with a data link used for air traffic control information exchange, page 11:
  6. (countable, uncountable) A signing bonus.
    • Sign-ons, to be fair, are neither a gift nor a bonus. They are payments for surrendering what remuneration an executive was promised at the job he's leaving. 2010, Chris Roush, Show Me the Money, →ISBN:
    • At Ryder, Habib used sign-ons as a way to attract key talent to the transportation company. 1997, Informationweek - Issues 625-637, page 85:
    • NEPRC gave me excellent comparotives on all Northeast Jobs: Salaries, incentives, sign-ons, loan repay, relocation, bonuses, benefits in minutes. 2009, Emergency Medicine - Volume 41, Issues 1-6, page 49:

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Antonyms

logoff · signout · logout · sign-out · sign-off · signoff

Synonyms

log-in · sign-in · login