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sign away

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sign away
vb
(tr, adverb) to dispose of or lose by or as if by signing a document he signed away all his rights
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Verb1.sign away - formally assign ownership of; "She signed away her rights"
cede, surrender, give up, deliver - relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
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? sign away
vt sepverzichten auf (+acc); she felt she was signing away her lifesie hatte den Eindruck, ihr Leben abzuschreiben; I’m not going to sign my life away with a mortgageich werde mich nicht ein Leben lang mit einer Hypothek belasten


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To this there was no exception, save when the accident was one for which the firm was liable; in that case they would send a slippery lawyer to see him, first to try to get him to sign away his claims, but if he was too smart for that, to promise him that he and his should always be provided with work.
Leave fame and coin alone, sign away on a ship to-morrow, and go back to your sea.
"Yea," said the Prior, "so thou hast told me ere now, but I know that this knight is so poor that he will gladly sign away his lands for two hundred pounds of hard money.
 
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