What does Subscription mean?

Definitions for Subscription
səbˈskrɪp ʃənsub·scrip·tion

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Subscription.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. subscriptionnoun

    a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time

  2. subscriptionnoun

    agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name

  3. subscriptionnoun

    a pledged contribution

  4. subscriptionnoun

    the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)

    "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature"

Wiktionary

  1. subscriptionnoun

    access to a resource for a period of time.

  2. subscriptionnoun

    the formal acceptance of something, especially when verified with a signature

  3. subscriptionnoun

    the signing of one's name

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Subscriptionnoun

    Etymology: from subscriptio, Latin.

    The man asked, are ye Christians? We answered we were; fearing the less because of the cross we had seen in the subscription. Francis Bacon.

    The work he ply’d;
    Stocks and subscriptions pour on ev’ry side. Alexander Pope.

    South-sea subscriptions take who please,
    Leave me but liberty. Alexander Pope.

    I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
    I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children,
    You owe me no subscription. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

Wikipedia

  1. Subscription

    The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century, and is now used by many businesses, websites and even pharmaceutical companies in partnership with the government.

ChatGPT

  1. subscription

    A subscription is a contractual arrangement where a person or an entity regularly receives a product or service in exchange for a periodic payment. It often involves the recurring delivery of goods, services, or access to content or platform for a fixed time period or indefinitely until cancellation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Subscriptionnoun

    the act of subscribing

  2. Subscriptionnoun

    that which is subscribed

  3. Subscriptionnoun

    a paper to which a signature is attached

  4. Subscriptionnoun

    the signature attached to a paper

  5. Subscriptionnoun

    consent or attestation by underwriting the name

  6. Subscriptionnoun

    sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund

  7. Subscriptionnoun

    the acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination

  8. Subscriptionnoun

    submission; obedience

  9. Subscriptionnoun

    that part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary

  10. Subscriptionnoun

    a method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed

  11. Etymology: [L. subscriptio: cf. F. souscription.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. subscription

    An agreement by a nation

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Subscription' in Nouns Frequency: #2784

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Subscription in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Subscription in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Subscription in a Sentence

  1. Jack Kent:

    For Apple's own business, it marks the strategic shift away from a central hardware focus to a business in which subscription content and services are increasingly important for margin and revenues.

  2. Andrew Hare:

    I'm not sure Does Quibi have much historic evidence that a younger demo is willing to pay much for short-form mobile video, consumers are looking at their budgets closer than ever. Many are paying for pay TV, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify and more already... It's really going to need to prove extraordinary value to consumers to drive subscription scale.

  3. Jacinto Roca:

    We are complementary to subscription services like Netflix because they do not have new movie releases coming out of the cinemas.

  4. An SFC spokesman:

    Management companies are required to have procedures to handle issues related to redemption, subscription and valuation of fund assets to ensure all investors are treated fairly, and they should keep investors informed of such procedures.

  5. Daniela Salazar:

    There's no pathway to citizenship for me, it's like a paid subscription. I keep subscribing to live in United States... but I would like to be accepted to live in United States as a citizen.

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