Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bound by signed agreement.
- noun One who has signed a contract or other legal document as a party.
- noun A country that is a party to a treaty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is bound by signature to the terms of an agreement; specifically, a party or state bound jointly with several others by the signing of a public treaty or convention.
- Pertaining to or used in sealing: as, a signatory ring.
- That has signed, or signed and sealed; bound by signature and seal, as to the terms of a contract or agreement: used specifically, in the phrase signatory powers, of the sovereign parties to a general treaty or convention, as that of Paris in 1856, or that of Berlin in 1878.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Relating to a seal; used in sealing.
- adjective Signing; joining or sharing in a signature.
- noun A signer; one who signs or subscribes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
signs or signed something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who signs and is bound by a document
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Another signatory is the screenwriter Billy Ivory, who has adapted Lawrence's Women in Love for a BBC series this autumn.
Campaign to save DH Lawrence legacy unites arts elite Vanessa Thorpe 2010
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But I would urge the government of Canada to withdraw as a signatory from a Treaty which they do not intend to honour.
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But I would urge the government of Canada to withdraw as a signatory from a Treaty which they do not intend to honour.
Canada Must Withdraw As Signatory To Kyoto « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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But I would urge the government of Canada to withdraw as a signatory from a Treaty which they do not intend to honour.
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For GMT, the signatory was the president of the company, a former beauty queen and airline stewardess and conservative talk show hostess by the name of Barbara Studley, while a number of top officers and officials signed for Israel.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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For GMT, the signatory was the president of the company, a former beauty queen and airline stewardess and conservative talk show hostess by the name of Barbara Studley, while a number of top officers and officials signed for Israel.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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Where the party in trouble is not in power it means that they effectively aid the Goverment's budget, and when it's the party in power it's a little like just moving it from one bank account to another but where the signatory is the same.
If the money goes to the Treasury it's win-win for Brown 2007
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Where the party in trouble is not in power it means that they effectively aid the Goverment's budget, and when it's the party in power it's a little like just moving it from one bank account to another but where the signatory is the same.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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When the bad news telegram arrived, however -- the signatory was the unknown second wife, Nasreen II, and the tone was pretty unvarnished: FATHER GOING FAST + IF DESIROUS OF SEEING BETTER MOVE IT + N CHAMCHAWALA (MRS) -- he discovered to his surprise that after a lifetime of tangled relationships with his father, after long years of crossed wires and "irrevocable sunderings", he was once again capable of an uncomplicated reaction.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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Logging all the steps ( "SMS was sent to at with PIN code" and "PIN was enteret at from") into an embedded audit trail, it can be assured, that the signatory is the holder of this particular cell phone.
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