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SIGNATORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does signatory mean?
• SIGNATORY (noun)
The noun SIGNATORY has 1 sense:
1. someone who signs and is bound by a document
Familiarity information: SIGNATORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who signs and is bound by a document
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
signatory; signer
Hypernyms ("signatory" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signatory"):
cosignatory; cosigner (one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration))
cosigner (a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety))
abhorrer (a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred)
endorser; indorser (a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security)
attestant; attestator; attestor; witness ((law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature)
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