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Neo Posted 21 years ago
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0 Hello, 02br
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00"When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it immediately." 02br
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00"Signed off" sounds like the executives rejected the ad proposal. 02br
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0 Hi, Neo. " It doesn't give "sign off ON", but I guess your sentence has exactly the opposite meaning to what you suggest. It should be something like: 02br 00The executives approved the ad immediately.

— Miche

  • 0 Hi, Neo.
  • " It doesn't give "sign off ON", but I guess your sentence has exactly the opposite meaning to what you suggest.
  • It should be something like: 02br 00The executives approved the ad immediately.
  • 02br 02br 00Probably somebody else will share an opinion, too.
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0 Hi, Neo. 02br
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00Mind that I'm not a native speaker, but I was tempted to check this up and this is what I found: 02br
00The Webster says that "sign off" is "to indicate one's approval explicitly if not formally." It doesn't give "sign off ON", but I guess your sentence has exactly the opposite meaning to what you suggest. It should be something like: 02
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0I would agree with Miche. And the 01i00Webster's02i00 online definition includes an example using the prepositional modifier: 02br
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00"2 : to approve or acknowledge something by or as if by a signature 00". 02br
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0 Thanks Miche and Mister Micawber, 02br
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