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e-sign

e-sign verb: to sign electronically with a digital signature.

Verb

e-sign (third-person singular simple present e-signs, present participle e-signing, simple past and past participle e-signed)

  1. (transitive) To sign electronically with a digital signature.
    • If we don't even know who gets the e-mail petition that we've just e-signed, then what counts as political involvement?2013, Martha McCaughey, Michael D. Ayers, Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice, page 6

Forms of e-sign

third-person singular presente-signs
present participlee-signing
past participlee-signed
paste-signed

Origin of e-sign

From e- + sign.

Questions about e-sign

What does e-sign mean?
E-sign means to sign electronically with a digital signature.
What part of speech is e-sign?
E-sign is a verb.
What is the past tense of e-sign?
The past tense of e-sign is e-signed.

Words near e-sign in the dictionary

  1. e-shop
  2. e-shopper
  3. e-shoppers
  4. e-shopping
  5. e-shops
  6. e-sign
  7. e-signature
  8. e-signatures
  9. e-signed
  10. e-signing
  11. e-signs

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