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Subscribe   /səbskrˈaɪb/   Listen
Subscribe

verb
(past & past part. subscribed; pres. part. subscribing)
1.
Offer to buy, as of stocks and shares.
2.
Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on).  Synonym: sign.  "Please sign here"
3.
Adopt as a belief.  Synonym: support.
4.
Pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals.  Synonym: pledge.
5.
Receive or obtain regularly.  Synonyms: subscribe to, take.



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"Subscribe" Quotes from Famous Books



... to hear that you were well received at London, and that you got safe to the end of your journey. Your naivete in gravely inquiring my opinion of the "last new novel" amuses me. We do not subscribe to a circulating library at Haworth, and consequently "new novels" rarely indeed come in our way, and consequently, again, we are not qualified to give ...
— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

... this what efforts have to be made and what compromises must be acquiesced in by those deputies whose election depends on such institutions which, aware that money is more than ever the nerve of political contests, subscribe to the election expenses, and assure in this way the respectful gratitude of the parliamentary recipients of their benefactions. And all this is executed with order and discipline. Examples could be quoted ...
— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon

... sovereign, and the Pytchley and Warwickshire two pounds. The usual "field money" in Ireland is half-a-crown. The Blackmore Vale, although a subscription pack, does not fix any sum, but sensibly expects people to subscribe according to the number of horses they keep, and the amount of hunting they do. An old and sound rule is L5 for each horse. As subscriptions vary in different hunts, the best plan for a lady who has to arrange her own business matters, is to write to the secretary of the hunt which she desires ...
— The Horsewoman - A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. • Alice M. Hayes

... extinguished all their joy. It was passed on a scrap of paper from man to man, brief and callous. The managers of the factory wanted to have nothing to do with the organization, but silently went behind it. All had a period of fourteen days in which to subscribe to the new tariff. "No arguments, if you please—sign, or go!" When the notice came to Pelle all eyes were turned upon him as though they expected a signal; tools were laid down, but the machinery ran idly for a time. Pelle read the notice and then ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... representing to him how particular our mutual absence from the company would seem, unless we could condescend to tell some falsehood, which I would not I said suppose possible to either of us, I prevailed on him to subscribe ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft


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