Crossword clues for subscription
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subscription \Sub*scrip"tion\, n. [L. subscriptio: cf. F. souscription.]
The act of subscribing.
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That which is subscribed. Specifically:
A paper to which a signature is attached.
The signature attached to a paper.
Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
(Eccl.) 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.
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Submission; obedience. [Obs.]
You owe me no subscription.
--Shak. (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
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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.
Note: The right to attend a series of public performances of ballet, opera, or music are also often sold by subscription. The payment for a subscription may be made prior to delivery of any items (common with magazines and performances), or after a certain number of the items have been delivered (common with newspapers or works of art produced in a series). [1913 Webster]
An application to purchase a certain number of securities to be delivered when they are newly issued.
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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 stem of subscribere (see subscribe). Meaning "act of subscribing money" is from 1640s.
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
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 deed was attested by the subscription of his signature"
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.
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.