Subscription
[səb'skrɪpʃ(ə)n] or [səb'skrɪpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); 'the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature'.
(noun.) a pledged contribution.
(noun.) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name.
(noun.) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time.
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Definition
(n.) The act of subscribing.
(n.) That which is subscribed.
(n.) A paper to which a signature is attached.
(n.) The signature attached to a paper.
(n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
(n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Submission; obedience.
(n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
(n.) 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.
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Examples
- To beg of you a subscription to a school. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Supported by a small subscription of the--ha--Collegiate body. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mrs. Pardiggle came one day for a subscription to something, and with her, Mr. Quale. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Donne looked at it, declared the subscription shabby, and clamorously demanded more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Gilbert Tennent, came to me with a request that I would assist him in procuring a subscription for erecting a new meeting-house. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Because fifteen pounds is not enough for board and teaching, and the deficiency is supplied by subscription. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He generally considers it as a favour, therefore, when the administration admits him to a share in the first subscription for a new loan. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The land is to be bought by subscription, I believe. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You may have seen their names in a printed subscription list (perhaps more than one) in the possession of our esteemed friend Mr. Jarndyce. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From the age of five or six until seventeen, I attended the subscription schools of the village, except during the winters of 1836-7 and 1838-9. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Do you want a subscription to a new Ranter's chapel, Mr. Barraclough? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She should try to get additional subscriptions, and to form a fund; but first she must consult the clergy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They threw themselves into committees in the most impassioned manner and collected subscriptions with a vehemence quite extraordinary. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But, bless you, the money fell short, and there they are, waiting for new subscriptions, and nobody to subscribe. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They were come to tell her of certain successes they had achieved that morning in applications for subscriptions to the fund. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Society adopted those suggestions, and the result is, that by sending forth well-printed books, it could now support itself by their sale, without any aid from subscriptions. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Subscriptions were made for the emigrants, and merchants bankrupt by the failure of trade. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When subscriptions were opened for the erection and endowment of the Pasteur Institute, a sum of 2,586,680 francs was received in contributions from many different parts of the world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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