undersigned

From under- + signed.

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• Rhymes: -aɪnd

undersigned (not comparable)

1. (of a document) Having signatures at the end or bottom.
2. (of a person) Having signed at the end of a document.

undersigned (plural undersigneds or undersigned)

1. A person, mentioned in a document, whose name and signature appears at the end.

   Near-synonyms: subscriber, signatory, signer

   the undersigned;   we the undersigned

   • 1920, Buffalo Bill, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 17:

     We, the undersigned wagon-masters, assistants, teamsters and all other employees of the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell, do hereby sign that we will not swear, drink whisky, play cards or be cruel to dumb beasts in any way, shape or form.

• Sometimes used by authors to refer to themselves in contexts in which first-person pronouns are conventionally not or not usually used, e.g. court decisions.