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Subscribe

//səbˈskɹaɪb// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

    "[They] subscribed their names under them."

  2. 2
    adopt as a belief wordnet
  3. 3
    To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation. transitive

    "Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond."

  4. 4
    mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) wordnet
  5. 5
    To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time. ergative

    "Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?"

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  1. 6
    receive or obtain regularly wordnet
  2. 7
    To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.

    "I subscribed to this streaming service years ago."

  3. 8
    offer to buy, as of stocks and shares wordnet
  4. 9
    To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].

    "I don’t subscribe to that theory."

  5. 10
    pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals wordnet
  6. 11
    To pay money to be a member of an organization.
  7. 12
    To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund. intransitive

    "[…] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;"

  8. 13
    To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount. transitive

    "Each man subscribed ten dollars."

  9. 14
    To agree to buy shares in a company.

    "The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up."

  10. 15
    To sign away; to yield; to surrender. obsolete

    "Admit no other way to save his life , (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, But in the loss of question) […]"

  11. 16
    To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong. obsolete
  12. 17
    To declare over one's signature; to publish. obsolete, transitive

    "I will subscribe him a coward."

  13. 18
    To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization. intransitive

    "Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel."

  14. 19
    To register for notifications about an event or similar. intransitive

    "If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse."

Etymology

From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.

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