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The act of signing your name
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a subscription fee (= a fee to receive copies of a newspaper or magazine ) ▪ You can pay the subscription fee by cheque. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE annual ▪ You produce a good magazine each month; the readers' ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name a pledged contribution the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); "the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "piece of writing at the end of a document," from Middle French subscription (Modern French souscription ) and directly from Latin subscriptionem (nominative subscriptio ) "anything written underneath, a signature," noun of action from past participle ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Subscription refers to the process of investors signing up and committing to invest in a financial instrument, before the actual closing of the purchase. The term comes from the Latin word subscribere .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 access to a resource for a period of time. 2 the formal acceptance of something, especially when verified with a signature 3 the signing of one's name
Usage examples of subscription.
The Senior Tutor went down to the Boathouse to coach the first boat, the Dean slept until teatime, and the Bursar spent the afternoon doodling in his office wondering if he had been wise to tell Sir Godber about the endowment subscriptions.
Edinburgh to improve, enlarge, and adorn the avenues and streets of that city, according to a concerted plan, to be executed by voluntary subscription: a third, allowing the exportation of wool and woollen yarn from Ireland into any port in Great Britain: and a fourth, prescribing the breadth of the wheels belonging to heavy carriages, that the high roads of the kingdom might be the better preserved.
Hatrack River he knew was the village of his prenticeship, with a town square and a church with a preacher and Whitley Physicker to tend the sick and even a post office and enough folks with enough children that they got them up a subscription and hired them a schoolteacher.
Usually run by some dumb nerd with a subscription to Variety who learned about movies by doing the Universal Studios tour.
Subscriptions to the above four Magazines may be secured also through the Theosophical Publishing Co.
Being indulged in this request, he recommended it in terms of rapture to all his friends and dependants, and, by dint of unwearied solicitation, procured a very ample subscription for the author.
At times the members of certain social clubs gave in these rooms subscription balls of anacreontic tendencies, the feminine element of which was recruited among the popular gay favorites of the period.
Some of your friends have probably informed you that at our last Quarterly Meeting much sympathy was expressed for the destitute artizans, and a liberal subscription was commenced, and was to be carried forward in all our meetings for their relief: a few days ago it amounted to L800--I hope it will exceed L1000: but what is that, it may be said, among so many?
The clip-out subscription label contains two checkoff boxes, the contents of which hint at what you can expect from the magazine.
A failed experiment with an annoying subscription model gave way to unrestricted access to the full contents of the Encyclopaedia and much more besides: specially commissioned articles, fora, an annotated internet guide, news in context, downloads and shopping.
Federation of Feebleminded Friends reminding you that your annual subscription is due .
She had kept up their subscription to Pathways and she sent them the special messages that came down from the Meadows Center from time to time.
Clumsy, Trowneer, Phoebe, Colle, Gerland, Talbot, Luath, Luffra, Apollon, Orthros, Bran, Gelert, Bounce, Boy, Lion, Bungey, Toby, Diamond and Cavall were not pet dogs: they were the Forest Sauvage Hounds, no subscription, two days a week, huntsman the master.
CHAPTER VIII The exposure of the plot was most prejudicial to the prosperity of the Ursuline community: spurious possession, far from bringing to their convent an increase of subscriptions and enhancing their reputation, as Mignon had promised, had ended for them in open shame, while in private they suffered from straitened circumstances, for the parents of their boarders hastened to withdraw their daughters from the convent, and the nuns in losing their pupils lost their sole source of income.
Sir George Farrer and his brother were among the first of the Adventurers, but withdrew themselves and their subscriptions very early, on account of some dissatisfaction.