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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subscriber
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.
new
▪ No new subscribers will be accepted.
▪ Meanwhile, new subscribers began to flock, like moths scenting pheromones, to the Times.
▪ Plus every new subscriber receives another three free books - a total worth over £80. 1.
▪ DirecTV says it hopes to add nearly two million new subscribers in the coming year.
▪ It's such a great book we decided to give away a copy to every new subscriber to Outdoor Action.
▪ The increase was driven primarily by new subscribers.
■ NOUN
base
▪ Since then it has climbed steadily to around 9 million a month and a total subscriber base of around 50 million people.
▪ Lower prices should boost its subscriber base.
▪ Its total subscriber base of 400, 000 compares with 2. 3 million each at Vodafone and Cellnet.
▪ Actual subscriber behavior has proven otherwise, of course, and the subscriber base has grown rapidly.
cable
▪ The monthly charge is $ 40 for current cable subscribers and $ 60 for nonsubscribers.
▪ Only 10 to 15 percent of cable subscribers currently are served by the kind of infrastructure required to support the Home operation.
▪ Almost 95 percent of cable subscribers have access to 30-54 channels, while 35 percent of subscribers receive 54 or more channels.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The service will allow subscribers with special display equipment to see many callers' numbers.
▪ Spend $ 350 million upgrading its national network of computers and the modems that allow subscribers to connect.
give
▪ Individual quotations will also be given to subscribers with multiple offices.
▪ We have 10 Swish Powerglydes to give away to subscribers.
pay
▪ It started out with all the wrong assumptions about users and their habits and has paid the price in subscriber unrest.
provide
▪ From humble beginnings it has come to provide 20m subscribers with a pipe to the internet.
reach
▪ While Interchange was reaching thousands of subscribers, the web reaches millions.
▪ To reach their ambitious subscriber goals, the two companies plan markedly different image campaigns.
▪ The company hopes to reach 1 million subscribers by the end of the year.
▪ There is an elite number of cable channels that reach the 70 million subscriber mark.
▪ Discovery already owns the popular Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel, which reach 113 million subscribers worldwide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Internet service subscribers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hundred satisfied subscribers would be even better than one.
▪ It is clear that these women subscribers lived in the best parts of London.
▪ Meanwhile, new subscribers began to flock, like moths scenting pheromones, to the Times.
▪ Seventeen has 1. 9 million subscribers, of whom 4, 200&.
▪ The bulk of its revenues comes from selling cut-rate subscriptions to first-time subscribers.
▪ This SportsNet Plus / Cityline budget is for audiotex subscribers only.
▪ You'd better go round and ask some of the other hunt subscribers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subscriber

Subscriber \Sub*scrib"er\, n.

  1. One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

  2. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subscriber

1590s, agent noun from subscribe.

Wiktionary
subscriber

n. a person who subscribes to a publication or a service

WordNet
subscriber
  1. n. someone who expresses strong approval [syn: endorser, indorser, ratifier]

  2. someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication [syn: reader]

  3. someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money [syn: contributor]

Wikipedia

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.