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Definition: Subscriber |
SubscriberNoun1. Someone who expresses strong approval. 2. Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication. 3. Someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "subscriber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A user of a telecommunication service, normally based on a contract with the provider of a public service. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | A person who has applied for shares in a company. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A person who promises in writing to purchase a certain number of shares of stock of a specified corporation, or to deposit a certain amount of funds in a mutual savings institution. (references) | |
Transportation | An undertaking other than a participating carrier, using a CRS within the Community under contract or other arrangement with a system vendor or a distributor for the sale of air transport services to members of the public. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Subscriber: In a public switched telecommunications network, the ultimate user, i.e., customer, of a communications service.Note 1: Subscribers include individuals, activities, organizations, etc.
Note 2: Subscribers use end instruments, such as telephones, modems, facsimile machines, computers, and remote terminals, that are connected to a central office.
Note 3: Subscribers are usually subject to tariff.
Note 4: Subscribers do not include communications systems operating personnel except for their personal terminals.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Subscriber."
Synonyms: SubscriberSynonyms: contributor (n), endorser (n), ratifier (n), reader (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: allottee (finance, meteorology & standards). |
Crosswords: Subscriber |
| English words defined with "subscriber": private line ♦ The undersigned. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "subscriber": absent subscriber service, Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop ♦ called subscriber ♦ Digital Subscriber Line, Digital Subscriber Line Access Module, Digital Subscriber Loop ♦ High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line ♦ international charged subscriber identifier ♦ Single-line Digital Subscriber Line, Single-pair High Speed Digital Subscriber Line, subscriber authentication key, subscriber files, subscriber identification module, subscriber identity module, subscriber information management, subscriber number analysis process ♦ Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | An old subscriber of the New Republic am I, prudent, meditative, rigidly impartial. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In 1999 140,000 new subscriber lines were installed throughout the country. (references) | |
The telephone line density amounts to 53 subscriber lines per 100 inhabitants. (references) | ||
Home Cable has a subscriber base of approximately 400,000, or a 23% market share. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Seychelles | The legislation also requires telecommunications companies to submit subscriber information to the Government. (references) |
Economic History | Uae | Thuraya hopes to have a subscriber base of US $ 1.8 million. (references) |
Croatia | Network roll-out or reconstruction costs range from $100-$300 per subscriber. (references) | |
Political Economy | FINLAND | It is also possible to choose which operator is used when calling from a fixed-line phone to a mobile subscriber. (references) |
Trade | Pakistan | The remaining profit is allocated pro rata to all certificate holders including the manager in his capacity as a subscriber. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Subscriber" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Subscriber" is used about 140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 140 | 26,789 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "subscriber": absent subscriber service ♦ asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ♦ asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop ♦ asymmetrical digital subscriber loop ♦ call forwarding on mobile subscriber not reachable ♦ called subscriber ♦ calling subscriber ♦ cellular subscriber ♦ digital Subscriber Line ♦ digital Subscriber Line Access Module ♦ digital Subscriber Loop ♦ external subscriber data file ♦ international charged subscriber identifier ♦ mobile radio subscriber ♦ mobile subscriber ♦ mobile subscriber equipment ♦ mobile subscriber set ♦ mobile subscriber station ♦ mobile telephone subscriber ♦ ported subscriber ♦ proactive GSM subscriber identity module ♦ subscriber authentication key ♦ subscriber files ♦ subscriber for ♦ subscriber identification module ♦ subscriber identity module ♦ subscriber information management ♦ subscriber line interface circuit ♦ subscriber loop ♦ subscriber number analysis process ♦ subscriber terminal ♦ subscriber trunk dialling ♦ telephone subscriber. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "subscriber": subscriber-supplied. | |
Ending with "subscriber": author-subscriber. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "subscriber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | abonnent, abonnee. (various references) | |
Albanian | pajtimtar, nënshkrues (signatory), dhurues (donator, donor, giver), abonuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | مكتتب, مقيد أسمه, موقع (locale, locality, location, place, point, position, post, rhythmic, scene, site, situation, spot), مشترك في صحيفة, الموقع, المؤيد (advocate, second, supporter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | абонат. (various references) | |
Chinese | 订户, 訂購者 , 訂購 (to order, to subscribe). (various references) | |
Czech | podpisovatel, předplatitel, odbìratel, abonent. (various references) | |
Danish | tilsluttet modtager (customer), tegner (allottee, designer, draftsman, draughtsman, drawer, share allottee, stylist), medlem (acolyte, limb, member, supporter), låner (borrower), aktietegner (allottee, share allottee), abonnent (customer, party). (various references) | |
Dutch | abonnee (commuter, customer, season-ticket holder). (various references) | |
Esperanto | abonanto. (various references) | |
Farsi | مشترک روزنامه وغیره , امضاکننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | tilaaja (party). (various references) | |
French | abonné, souscripteur. (various references) | |
German | Abonnent (season ticket), zeichner (artist, designer, draftsman, draftsmen, draughtsman, drawer, drawers), teilnehmer (combatant, competitor, contestant, entrant, member of a party, Number of Participants, participant, participants, participator, partner, starter, student). (various references) | |
Greek | συνδρομητής (commuter, customer, season-ticket holder). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | abonuar. (various references) | |
Hungarian | aláíró (signatory, underwriter), részvényjegyző, előfizető, adakozó (benefactor, giver, munificent, open handed). (various references) | |
Icelandic | áskrifandi. (various references) | |
Italian | abbonato (commuter, season ticket holder, telephone subscriber). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 購読者 , 入者 (affiliate, entrant, member, participant), 予約者 , 愛読者 (admirer, reader). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かにゅうしゃ (affiliate, entrant, member, participant), "うどくしゃ, あいどくしゃ (admirer, reader), よやくしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 구내구독자. (various references) | |
Manx | fo-screeuder (signatory), co-ronneyder. (various references) | |
Papiamen | abonado. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubscribersay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | subscritor (underwriter), assinante (caller, calling party, calling subscriber, customer). (various references) | |
Romanian | subsemnat (undersigned), subscris, semnatar (signatory, signer), contractant (contracting, contractor), abonat (consumer). (various references) | |
Russian | абонент (abonent), подписчик. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pretplatnik, abonent. (various references) | |
Spanish | suscriptor (allottee, share allottee, underwriter), subscriptor (underwriter), abonado (improved, reliable, subscription, taken, trustworthy). (various references) | |
Swedish | abonnent (consumer, customer), prenumerant. (various references) | |
Turkish | abone (subscription). (various references) | |
Turkmen | abunaзy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | жертводавець (contributor, donor), абонент (consumer), передплатник. (various references) | |
Welsh | tanysgrifiwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subscriber": subscribers. (additional references) | |
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"Subscriber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subscibe, subscrib, subscripe, suscribe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subscriber" (pronounced subskrī"ber) |
| 6 | -s k r ī" b er | prescriber, scriber, transcriber. |
| 3 | -ī" b er | fiber, fibre. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-e-i-r-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: scrubbers, scrubbier, subscribe. | |
-2 letters: bruisers, cribbers, cruisers, scribers, scrubber, scurries. | |
-3 letters: bribers, bruiser, bruises, buriers, busbies, cribber, cruiser, cruises, cubbies, curbers, curries, cursers, ribbers, rubbers, rubrics, scriber, scribes, suberic. | |
-4 letters: birses, briber, bribes, briers, bruise, burier, buries, burses, busier, busies, cirrus, criers, crises, cruise, cruses, cubebs, cubers, cuisse, curber, curers, curies, currie, curser, curses. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-e-i-r-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: subscribers. | |
+3 letters: oversubscribe. | |
+4 letters: oversubscribed, oversubscribes. | |
+5 letters: oversubscribing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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