Sign out means to leave your account, an app or a website: Sign out of all devices. The second meaning is to sign a book or register when you leave: at an office reception, a security desk, a school.
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sign out of + account/app; sign out (at + place)
- I always sign out of my bank account when I use a shared computer.
- Visitors have to sign out at the front desk before leaving the building.
- If you think someone knows your password, sign out of all devices and change it.
What changed
First versionI forgot to exit from my account on the library computer.
RevisionI forgot to sign out of my account on the library computer.
Exit from can look like a natural way to say “leave an account”. But in English you don't exit an account; you sign out of it or log out of it. Exit is used about a program, a game or a building, not an account.
In interfaces, sign out and log out are interchangeable: on Google and Microsoft the button says Sign out, on many other services it's Log out. But for the book at the entrance, people only say sign out: Please sign out at reception, not log out.
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At the end of each visit, guests must ___ at reception and return their badges.
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sign out — At the end of the visit, guests record that they're leaving and hand back their badges: sign out. Sign up means “register, join”, which you do at the start, not on the way out.
Write a short instruction for a new colleague: where and when they need to leave the system and record that they're leaving.
When you finish your shift, sign out of the booking system on the front desk computer and sign out in the staff book by the door.
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