"signing bonus" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1944 September 21, “Wakefield Supplies Batting Punch in Detroit Tigers' Pennant Drive”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 2012-09-20, page 12:",
          "text": "The Tigers are collecting dividends now . . . as a result of the $52,000 check which Owner Walter O. Briggs handed Wakefield in July 1941, when as a sophomore at Michigan, he signed with Detroit. It was the biggest signing bonus in major league history.",
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          "ref": "1996 August 26, “Milestones”, in Time:",
          "text": "Signed. Emmitt Smith, 27, running back; to the Dallas Cowboys. The eight-year, $48 million contract includes a record $15 million signing bonus.",
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          "ref": "2011 September 17, Bill Vlasic, Nick Bunkley, “General Motors Is Said to Offer Bonuses and Reopened Plan”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-20:",
          "text": "But people briefed on the negotiations said that workers would receive a signing bonus of $5,000 in lieu of cost-of-living wage increases.",
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        "Synonym of sign-on bonus."
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        "(business) Synonym of sign-on bonus."
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          "word": "intekenbonus"
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  "word": "signing bonus"
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          "sign-on bonus",
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