"sign on the dotted line" meaning in All languages combined

See sign on the dotted line on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-sign on the dotted line.ogg Forms: signs on the dotted line [present, singular, third-person], signing on the dotted line [participle, present], signed on the dotted line [participle, past], signed on the dotted line [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sign on the dotted line (third-person singular simple present signs on the dotted line, present participle signing on the dotted line, simple past and past participle signed on the dotted line)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To formalize an agreement. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-sign_on_the_dotted_line-en-verb-C~FdGcW7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "signs on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "signing on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "signed on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "signed on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sign on the dotted line (third-person singular simple present signs on the dotted line, present participle signing on the dotted line, simple past and past participle signed on the dotted line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I think they've basically decided to go through with it, but they still have to sign on the dotted line.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 20, Angie Doll explains to Paul Clifton, “We were absolutely at rock bottom...”, in RAIL, number 942, page 35:",
          "text": "Staff could sign new contracts... or they could leave. Eventually one person left and 350 guards signed on the dotted line.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To formalize an agreement."
      ],
      "id": "en-sign_on_the_dotted_line-en-verb-C~FdGcW7",
      "links": [
        [
          "formalize",
          "formalize"
        ],
        [
          "agreement",
          "agreement"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To formalize an agreement."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sign on the dotted line.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-au-sign_on_the_dotted_line.ogg/En-au-sign_on_the_dotted_line.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-au-sign_on_the_dotted_line.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sign on the dotted line"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "signs on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "signing on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "signed on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "signed on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sign on the dotted line (third-person singular simple present signs on the dotted line, present participle signing on the dotted line, simple past and past participle signed on the dotted line)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I think they've basically decided to go through with it, but they still have to sign on the dotted line.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 20, Angie Doll explains to Paul Clifton, “We were absolutely at rock bottom...”, in RAIL, number 942, page 35:",
          "text": "Staff could sign new contracts... or they could leave. Eventually one person left and 350 guards signed on the dotted line.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To formalize an agreement."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "formalize",
          "formalize"
        ],
        [
          "agreement",
          "agreement"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To formalize an agreement."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sign on the dotted line.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-au-sign_on_the_dotted_line.ogg/En-au-sign_on_the_dotted_line.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-au-sign_on_the_dotted_line.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sign on the dotted line"
}

Download raw JSONL data for sign on the dotted line meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.