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subscription

subscription

61 3.6
A payment that gives you regular issues of a newspaper or magazine
  • noun
  • /səbˈskrɪpʃən/
translation icon : suscripción
  • And you would call the phone numbers and try to convince people to buy a subscription to the Houston Post newspaper.
  • a magazine subscription
  • a journal subscription
  • cancel a subscription

I used to have the National Geographic subscription as a kid.

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Examples

  • It's deflating to find out the only way I can be part of it, is to take out a subscription to your magazine.

  • To cancel a subscription all you have to do is press cancel and Rocket Money takes care of the rest.

  • - Like a subscription to a magazine.

  • I used to have the National Geographic subscription as a kid.

  • Yes, he wins a subscription to Netflix guys for a whole year.

  • Has your subscription to the Midnight Star expired?

  • It's time to drop my print magazine subscriptions and use electronic versions instead.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Right now, Babel is offering our fans six months free of a six month subscription with the promo code trigger.

  • I've never, ever considered not renewing my season subscription for the New York Knickerbockers.

  • I purchased a subscription to a monthly magazine that focuses on travel.

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

How Long

subscription
  • Texting
68 2.9
subscription
61 3.6
to trial
12 3.3

Surface Forms

subscription singular
subscriptions plural

Morphology

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

Standard nominalization of 'subscribe' referring to the act/result of signing up for consecutive issues; straightforward for learners familiar with subscribing to publications.

Etymology

Subscription comes from Latin parts sub- 'under' and scribere 'to write', and it originally meant 'to write your name under' a paper to sign up. That's why a subscription can mean the payment you make to receive each issue of a newspaper or magazine.