Subscribe

Quick meaning: Subscribe is a verb meaning (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.

Meaning

(transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.

More Meanings

1. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
2. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
3. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
4. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
5. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
6. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
7. (archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

Example Sentences

All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

[They] subscribed their names under them.

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

Commission to take testimony: testimony of subscribing witnesses may be taken by commission […]

Word Forms

• subscribes
• subscribing
• subscribed

Synonyms for subscribe

Depending on context, synonyms include sign up, underwrite, support, take, stand, sign.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sign, take, support, stand, subscription, sign-up.

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