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subscription

subscription

5 3.2
A written promise to support or approve something by signing your name
  • noun
  • /səbˈskrɪpʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : firma
  • When you click on the link in your email to confirm your subscription, what page do you end up on?

Examples

  • The link is in the subscription and reviews, comments, likes all those things are extremely helpful.

  • So thank you for listening and thank you for your time and thank you for all these subscriptions that mean the absolute world to me.

  • The e-mail address is for editorial correspondence only; please direct all subscription inquiries.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • By 1972, the newsletter had become a subscription publication with some 400 California teachers receiving it four times during the school year.

    Academic text (1991)
  • There are currently almost twice as many mobile broadband subscriptions as fixed broadband subscriptions.

    Blog text (4)
  • It's the app that shows all your subscriptions in one place and cancels what you don't want.

  • Over the last four years, participants have adjusted their LC subject profile subscriptions, coordinated serial subscriptions, and declared local areas of specialization.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Razumovsky certainly knew and supported Beethoven as early as 1796, for his name appears on the subscription list to Beethoven's trios, Opus 1.

    Academic text (1993)
  • I renewed my subscription to the magazine for another year.

  • After reviewing the terms, I decided to expand my subscription to include premium features.

Synonyms

endorsement
vssubscription
  • Specialized
33 5.5

A signature on a document like a check that lets someone deposit or cash it

is a broader formal agreement to support or authorize beyond just signing
assent
vssubscription
  • Formal
12 6.8

A formal agreement that allows a plan or law to go ahead

is an agreement that commits to support or authorize usually shown by signing

Compounds

8.4

A choice for people who own shares to buy new shares at a set price before the public

subscription trap
  • Literature
7.6

A situation where you pay regular fees without clear permission and cannot easily stop them

subscription warrant
  • Specialized
9.6

A document that lets the person who has it buy company shares at a set price before a date

Surface Forms

subscription singular
subscriptions plural

Morphology

subscription = subscribe (transparent) = sub + scribe + tion

Standard noun formation from the verb 'subscribe' (action/result of subscribing) with a clear relation to signing or agreeing.

Etymology

Subscription comes from Latin parts sub- 'under' and scribere 'to write', the same root as scribe and script. It originally meant 'to write your name under' a paper, so a subscription is a signed agreement or pledge.