"sign on the dotted line" meaning in English

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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "signed on the dotted line",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "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.",
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        "To formalize an agreement."
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To formalize an agreement."
      ],
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "signing on the dotted line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "signed on the dotted line",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
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          "text": "I think they've basically decided to go through with it, but they still have to sign on the dotted line.",
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        },
        {
          "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.",
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