Sign for - 英语词汇详解

Meaning 1：sign for (Sign for)

Sign for 🔊

/saɪn fɔːr/

phr.v.

To write your name on a document to show you have received something, like a package.

sign for 🔊

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/saɪn fɔːr/

phr.v.

To sign your name on a document to confirm receipt of something, typically a delivered item.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

Sign from Latin 'signum' (mark); 'for' indicates purpose. Together: to mark receipt.

💡 Mnemonic

Picture yourself signing your name on a delivery slip to confirm you got the package.

📖 Example

The doorbell rang, and it was the courier with my new book; I had to sign for it on his digital tablet. 🔊 The doorbell rang, and it was the courier with my new book; I had to sign for it on his digital tablet.

🔗 Collocations

sign for a package – sign for a package

sign for delivery – sign for delivery

sign for receipt – sign for receipt

🔄 Synonyms

acknowledge receipt (v. phr.) – To formally confirm that something has been received.

accept delivery (v. phr.) – To take possession of a delivered item.

receive (v.) – To be given or handed something.

🚫 Antonyms

refuse delivery (v. phr.) – To decline to accept a delivery.

reject (v.) – To refuse to accept something.

🌱 Derivatives

signature (n.) – One's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification.

signee (n.) – A person who signs a document.

📖 Cultural Story

Originating with 19th-century parcel post, recipients signed a logbook to confirm delivery. Today, digital signatures on tablets serve the same purpose.