Subscriber
[səb'skraɪbə(r)] or [səb'skraɪbɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money.
(noun.) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication.
(noun.) someone who expresses strong approval.
Checker: Marie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
(n.) One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like.
Edited by Karl
Examples
- Each subscriber for a machine paid in $100 for the privilege of securing an instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In America the new subscriber finds his need anticipated and the facilities provided. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything _in propria persona_, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It has seventy subscribers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But I am sure that it will interest Mr. Horace Harker and the subscribers of the Central Press Syndicate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was not long before there were three hundred subscribers; but the very success of this device brought competition and improvement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The proposal of the new subscribers was accepted, and a new East India company established in consequence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The price was three cents a copy, or eight cents a month for regular subscribers, and the circulation ran up to over four hundred copies an issue. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Within a month he had procured two hundred subscribers, and the company was a success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But he was now so much engrossed with his experiments that he gave up the plan and the fund was returned to the subscribers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Quotations were transmitted by the Morse telegraph from the floor of the Stock Exchange to the central, and thence distributed to the subscribers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This incident led to an extension of the protective idea, and very soon a system was installed in Brooklyn with one hundred subscribers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I had great difficulty in getting subscribers, having tried several canvassers, who, one after the other, failed to get subscribers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Roland