subscribe
Verb
- offer to buy, as of stocks and shares
- "The broker subscribed 500 shares"
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- adopt as a belief
- "I subscribe to your view on abortion"
- pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals
- receive or obtain regularly
- To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
- To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
- To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
- To pay money to be a member of an organization.
- To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
- To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
- To agree to buy shares in a company.
- To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
- To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
- To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
- To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
- To declare over one's signature; to publish.
- To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.
- To register for notifications about an event or similar.
Examples
- Each man subscribed ten dollars.
- I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.
- If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.
- Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
- Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
- Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
- Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.
Synonyms
pledge, sign, subscribe to, support, take, sign up, underwrite
Scrabble Score: 15
subscribe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsubscribe: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
subscribe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
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