subscribershipn.
/səbˈskrʌɪbəʃɪp/, U.S. /səbˈskraɪbərˌʃɪp/ 1. The position of a subscriber; the condition or fact of being a subscriber, or of subscribing to something.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > a place on the stock exchange > position of non-member
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1828 Lancet 26 July 539/2 I am now perfectly unconnected with its proprietorship, editorship, contributorship, subscribership, and readership!
1863 Fine Arts Q. Rev. 1 433 A new and subordinate' class of ‘Associates’ is created, eligible to subscribership as vacancies occur.
1929 Musical Times 70 334/2 We are glad that after twenty-two years of subscribership..you still find the old journal ‘extraordinarily readable’.
1998 F. A. Wolak in R. G. Noll & M. E. Price Communications Cornucopia 424 In 1993 and 1994..subscribership to on-line services and access to the Internet in general became widespread.
2. The group of subscribers to a particular publication, service, etc.; the total number of subscribers.
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1895 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 24 Oct. 6/5 The Times-Herald..was a Democratic paper, with a free-trade subscribership.
1963 Rotarian Jan. 62/2 As our subscribership has grown, the job of keeping up with requests has become harder steadily.
1994 D. S. Shields in S. Bercovitch Cambr. Hist. Amer. Lit. (1997) I. 313 In the 1720s and 1730s when British-American newspapers built their subscriberships, they imitated the Addison—Franklin model.
2001 S. S. McKoy When Whites Riot ii. 44 The masthead of the Record evokes the extent of its subscribership stating simply that the circulation is ‘large’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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