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Answer for the clue "Someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money ", 10 letters:
subscriber

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a person who subscribes to a publication or a service

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who expresses strong approval [syn: endorser , indorser , ratifier ] someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication [syn: reader ] someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money [syn: ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subscriber \Sub*scrib"er\, n. One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like. --Dryden.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE available ▪ However, in contrast to teletext, the viewdata system is available only to subscribers and is an interactive system. ▪ The partners created on-line services and made them available to Interchange subscribers ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, agent noun from subscribe .

Usage examples of subscriber.

For these reasons he proposed, that although the term of subscribing should be protracted till the thirtieth day of May, the encouragement of three pounds ten shillings per centum per annum should not be continued to the second subscribers longer than till the fifth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five.

The notion that the subscriber has a right to interfere in the conduct of the paper, or the reader to direct its opinions, is based on a misconception of what the newspaper is.

The coelenterate system would correspond to a telephone network in which all subscribers are on a single party line, so that any call from one to another rouses every one of the subscribers, who are then free to listen and probably do.

The number of subscribers dropped, debts piled up, and his epileptic fits became more serious.

They carried away our typewriters and multigraph and the mailing list for Bulletin subscribers.

The advertiser acquires no more rights in the newspaper than the subscriber.

From January until July 1780, he published, anonymously, a series of miscellaneous small works, seven pamphlets of about one hundred pages each, distributed at irregular intervals to subscribers.

Estimates based on recent episodes of male unrest, six, ten, and thirteen decades ago, lead savants at the Institute for Sociological Trends to suggest that this somewhat more severe interlude may not pass in time to prevent short-term economic loss to many of our subscribers.

A first-class journal does not really suffer because two or three formalists or two or three bigots among its thousands of subscribers give it up for six weeks in a pet of ill-temper--and then take it on again.

Its main newspaper, Appeal to Reason, for which Debs wrote, had half a million subscribers, and there were many other Socialist newspapers around the country, so that, all together, perhaps a million people read the Socialist press.

Between this see-saw of the necessary subscriber and the necessary advertiser, a good many newspapers go down.

But instead of printing it he put it on tape and film and relayed it to subscribers on cable television.

Old Faithful must shoot up his jet of comment, neither so provocative as to drive subscribers from his paper, nor yet so inane as to be utterly contemptible.

A moment later, a screenful of subscribers came up with the small lighted bar flashing under the first letter of the line in the middle of the page.

Grandstand Forum outlining his case and asking other subscribers for their support, but his messages were erased by AOL almost as quickly as they were written.