subscription
/səbˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n
/noun
1An arrangement to receive something, typically a publication, regularly by paying in advance: make sure you get a copy every month by taking out a subscription [mass noun]: the newsletter is available only on subscription...
- The bank will also extend loans to SHCIL account holders for subscription to initial public offerings.
- Of course, we are dealing with two separate issues: the first is subscription versus donation, and the second is the search for means of smooth, continuous, easy payment rather than payment in chunks.
- The Theatre Royal opened in 1792, after construction costs were raised by subscription, including a donation by Robert Burns, who also wrote prologues for productions.
Synonyms
donation, contribution, offering, gift, present, grant, bestowal, endowment, subsidy, benefaction, handout
historical alms
rare donative
1.1An arrangement by which access is granted to an online service.I agree with you, we online users will probably not pay a subscription for access to online information, simply because we don't have to....
- On-line subscription services, as well as free access to certain pieces of educational materials, are definitely part of our plans.
- Coming soon: the ability to stream music into multiple rooms via RealNetworks' Rhapsody subscription online music service.
1.2An advance payment made to receive or participate in something: membership is available at an annual subscription of £300...
- Each person pays an annual subscription and then a percentage premium on the value of the investment but with no levy on returns.
- When you get the two options for payment subscriptions, you have to pick one of those and then pick ‘Use game card’ out of the checkboxes.
- New membership/programme cards are available at the meeting on payment of subscriptions.
Synonyms
membership fee, dues, annual payment, charge, levy, retainer
1.3 [mass noun] chiefly British The contribution of money to a fund, project, or cause: the school was built by public subscription in 1878...
- The Albert Memorial was among many paid for by public subscription.
- By 1776 he had composed Welcombe Hills, near Stratford-upon-Avon, a Poem, published by subscription the following year.
- The rest of the middle class went to proprietary schools which were financed by subscription, or to indifferent private schools.
1.4 [mass noun] A system in which the production of a book is wholly or partly financed by advance orders.Several of these he had had printed himself, financed by advance subscription from libraries and members of learned bodies such as the Royal Asiatic Society....
- In this system, books were issued periodically and by subscription in sections or ‘numbers’, bound in limp paper covers, and sold at modest prices.
- The book was sold by subscription and met considerable success.
2 formal A signature or short piece of writing at the end of a document: he signed the letter and added a subscription
Synonyms
signature, initials;
addition, appendage
2.1 archaic A signed declaration or agreement.
Origin
Late Middle English (in sense 2): from Latin subscriptio(n-), from subscribere 'write below' (see subscribe).