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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sub•scrib•er (səb skrī′bər),USA pronunciation n. - a person, company, etc., that subscribes, as to a publication or concert series.
- Show Businessa homeowner, apartment dweller, business, etc., that pays a monthly charge to be connected to a television cable service.
- a person who promises to donate a sum of money, purchase stock, etc.
- subscribe + -er1 1590–1600
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sub•scribe /səbˈskraɪb/USA pronunciation v., -scribed, -scrib•ing. - Show Business to make a subscription to:[~ + to + object]to subscribe to a magazine.
- to pay or pledge (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: [~ + object]to subscribe fifty dollars to the animal shelter fund.[no object]to subscribe to the animal shelter fund.
- to agree or assent to:[~ + to + object]They don't subscribe to the notion that everyone is equal under the law.
sub•scrib•er, n. [countable]Subscribers to the newspaper were canceling their subscriptions in protest.See -scrib-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sub•scribe (səb skrīb′),USA pronunciation v., -scribed, -scrib•ing. v.t. - to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment:He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- to give or pay in fulfillment of such a pledge.
- to append one's signature or mark to (a document), as in approval or attestation of its contents.
- to attest by or as by signing.
- to append, as one's signature, at the bottom of a document or the like;
sign. - to agree or assent to.
v.i. - to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay money as a contribution, gift, or investment.
- to give or pay money in fulfillment of such a pledge.
- Show Businessto obtain a subscription to a magazine, newspaper, etc.
- to give one's consent;
sanction:I will not subscribe to popular fallacies. - to sign one's name to a document.
- to give approval to the contents of a document by signing one's name.
- Latin subscrībere, equivalent. to sub- sub- + scrībere to write
- late Middle English subscriben 1375–1425
sub•scrib′a•ble, adj. sub•scrib′er•ship′, n. |