sign away

1. 1.

   formally assign ownership of

   “She signed away her rights”

   Synonymssign over

   Broadersurrender

Questions about sign away

What does sign away mean?

sign away means "formally assign ownership of".

What is another word for sign away?

Close synonyms include sign over. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sign away a common word?

sign away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.