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Definition: Subscribe

Subscribe

Verb

1. Off to buy, as of stocks and shares: "The broker subscribed 500 shares".

2. Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here".

3. Adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion".

4. Receive or obtain by regular payment; "We take the Times every day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "subscribe" was first used: 1425. (references)

Computing

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Subscribe

Aid

Verb: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid; n. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid; Noun: give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.

Assent

Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.

Compact

Make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an understanding; compromise; set at rest; close, close with; conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite; endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal; (attest); indent.

Expenditure

Fee; (reward); pay one's way; (pay); subscribe; (give); subsidize.

Giving

Make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota.

Crosswords: Subscribe

Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Most of you humans subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. (K-PAX; writing credit: Charles Leavitt)

I don't subscribe to your religion! (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood)

So you don't fully subscribe to the melting-pot theory? (Walking Shadow; writing credit: Robert B. Parker;)

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Books

• Subscribe Now: Building Arts Audiences Through Dynamic Subscription Promotion (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Subscribe (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Subscribe to the Vibe (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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By all means subscribe to Life by the year. Credit: Library of Congress.

Your money or his life Subscribe to the war fund - Red Cross week - June 18th to 25th / / Ayer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Subscribe to Chinese magazines in English : Peking Review, weekly ... : general distributor, Guozi Shudian ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If within five years after the coming into force of the present Treaty a new convention regulating international radio-telegraphic communications should have been concluded to take the place of the Convention of July 5, 1912, this new convention shall bind Germany, even if Germany should refuse either to take part in drawing up the convention, or to subscribe thereto. (reference)

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Health

Newsletter Articles If you choose not to subscribe to a newsletter, you can nevertheless find references to newsletter articles. (references)

Business

Some industry analysts believe that price is a driving factor in the willingness of consumers to use and subscribe to the Internet. (references)

They have since picked up and now a respectable 4.4 million households subscribe (1 million for ONdigital and 3.4 million for BskyB). (references)

So far cable companies have laid cable passed 12 million households, of which 4 million subscribe to cable telephony services and/or TV programs. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yemen

An estimated 30,400 persons use the Internet, and 7,600 persons subscribe to it. There are over 70 Internet cafes in Sana'a and approximately 30 in other cities. (references)

Chad

There is one privately owned cable television station service that distributes foreign-sourced programming in French and Arabic, but relatively few citizens can afford to subscribe to the service. (references)

Saudi Arabia

In 1994 the Government banned the sale, installation, and maintenance of dishes and supporting devices; however, the number of dishes continues to increase and residents legally may subscribe to satellite decoding services that require a dish. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

To access ETS, firms need to subscribe. (references)

Japan

Currently 12.5 million households subscribe to analog satellite broadcast services. (references)

Belgium

Public notice is not required if the offer is to existing shareholders, who may subscribe to the new shares directly. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

It is managed by a modaraba management company, which must subscribe to, and maintain at least 10 percent of the modaraba. (references)

Jamaica

The financial institutions agreed to a proposal made by the Finance Minister to utilize 50 percent of the funds released over the period, to subscribe to Development Bonds issued by the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ). The proceeds of this would provide funding for the DBJ itself which provides medium and long term loans to the productive sectors and to the national EXIM bank which provides pre and post shipment short term financing to exports. (references)

Travel

Armenia

To subscribe to international telex services, contact the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, Union Bldg., Republic Square, Yerevan 375010; Tel:(374-1)526-632, Fax: (374-1)151-446. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "subscribe": making subscribe ♦ right to subscribe ♦ subscribe for ♦ subscribe in full ♦ subscribe into ♦ subscribe to ♦ to subscribe for ♦ to subscribe for shares ♦ to subscribe to shares. Additional references.

Ending with "subscribe": re-subscribe.

Albanian

pajtohem (abide, accord, be reconciled, chime, coincide, comply, comport oneself, concur, conform, cotton, do with, eat humble pie, fall in with, lump it, make friends, make it up, make one's peace with, make up, moderate, put up with), nënshkruaj për, nënshkruaj (back, endorse, indorse, sign, undersign, underwrite, underwrote), abonoj, abonohem (subscribe to). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قبل (accede, accept, admit, agree to, approve of, assent, be accepted, before, concede, consent, fore, in front of, kiss, ok, okay, okey, previous, previously, prior, sanction, settle for, take, until), ‏وقع بإمضائة, ‏وقع (be located, befall, come, come off, drop, dwell, fall, ground smb., happen, land, locate, place, position, rhythm, run, set one's hand to, sign, sign up, site, strike, supervene, take place, tumble, underwrite), ‏تبرع (benevolence, contribute, contribution, donate, donating, liberality), ‏ساهم (redound), ‏ختم (cachet, chop, close, conclude, frank, impress, impression, imprint, round off, seal, seal ring, sealing, set one's hand to, sign off, signet, stamp, stamp about, stamping, wind up, wrap up), ‏إشترك في صحيفة, ‏أيد (advocate, affirm, champion, countenance, favor, favour, further, go in for, look with favor on, look with favour on, plunk, reason, second, side, side with, stand for, stand up for, stick up, stick up for, subserve, support, sustain, underpin, uphold, validate), ‏دفع إشتراكه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

участвувам в подписка, абонирам, подписвам (sign, undersign, underwrite). (various references)

Chinese 

订阅 (subscribed, Subscribing). (various references)

Czech

upsat, podepsat se, předplatit si, odebírat (get). (various references)

Danish

tegne aktier (to apply for shares, to subscribe for shares, to subscribe to shares), opsige et abonnement (cease to subscribe, withdraw subscription), at tegne sig for (to submit an offer for, to subscribe for, to tender), at subskribere (to submit an offer for, to subscribe for, to tender). (various references)

Dutch

zich abonneren op (subscribe to), intekenen op (subscribe to), een abonnement nemen (subscribe to), contributie betalen, bijdragen, býdragen (contribute). (various references)

Esperanto

kotizi, aboni. (various references)

Finnish

tilata (book, have a subscription, order, reserve, take in), merkitä (denote, imply, indicate, make a note of, mark, mean, signify, write down). (various references)

French

s'abonner (have a subscription, subscribe to). (various references)

German

unterzeichnen (endorse, execute, initial, sign, signing, to sign, to subscribe, undersign), abonnieren (have a season ticket for, have a subscription, subscribe to, take in, to subscribe). (various references)

Greek 

συνεισφέρω (chip in, contribute, contribute to), υπογράφω (sign, undersign), εγκτάφομαι συνδρομητήσ. (various references)

Hawaiian

abonohem (subscribe to). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתמוך ב- (countenance, favour, stick up for, uphold), לתרום (contribute, donate, redound), ל�"יות מ� וי, ל�"סכים (accede, accept, accord, agree, approve, assent, consent, grant). (various references)

Hungarian

jegyez (jot, to score, underwrite), elõfizet, aláír (set one's hand to, sign, to sign, to subscribe, to underwrite, undersign, underwrite). (various references)

Indonesian

berlangganan. (various references)

Italian

abbonarsi (get a season ticket, take out a subscription). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�し込む (to apply for, to book, to challenge, to lodge, to make an application, to make an overture, to offer, to propose, to request, to reserve, to subscribe for). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もうし�"む (to apply for, to book, to challenge, to lodge, to make an application, to make an overture, to offer, to propose, to request, to reserve, to subscribe for). (various references)

Korean 

구독하십시�". (various references)

Manx

fo-screeu. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubscribesay

Portuguese

contribuir (add to, concur, contribute, minister, pitch in, redound). (various references)

Romanian

subscrie (accede, club, sign, undersign, underwrite), semna (sign, sign oneself, undersign, underwrite), iscãli (receipt, sign, underwrite, write), cotiza, abona (subscribe to). (various references)

Russian 

подписываться (sign, subscribed, subscribes, subscribing, undersign, underwrite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slagati se (accord, agree, approve, concur, hit it off, jibe, match, string along), upisati (admit, bind, check in, chronicle, enroll, inscribe, register, write in), pretplatiti se, potpisati (autograph, sign, undersign), abonirati. (various references)

Spanish

suscribirse (subscribe to), abonarse (subscribe to). (various references)

Swedish

prenumerera. (various references)

Turkish

yatırmak (bed, credit, deposit, embark, fund, incline, instate, invest, lay down, lay low, pay into, place, put to bed, put to sleep, repose, repose on, shelter, sink), onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, o.k., ok, okay, ratify, recognize, sanction, smile on, stamp, sustain, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), katkıda bulunmak (conduce, contribute, lend, subscribe to), katılmak (accompany, adhere, affiliate, ally, ally oneself, attach oneself to, attend, be a party to, be in the swim, be out of breath, be out of the swim, be superadded, chip in, club, club together, come into, contract in, contribute, enter, enter into, go in for, go with, identify oneself with, join, join in, mingle, number, partake, participate, play ball, precondition, put in an appearance, range, share, share in, sit for, sit in, stand in, subscribe to, take a share in, take part, team up, weigh in with), imzalamak (autograph, put signature to, sign, sign one's name, underwrite), bağış olarak vermek, altına yazmak (underwrite). (various references)

Turkmen 

яazylmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

субсидувати (back, subsidize), підписувати (sign, stick down, subsign, undersign, underwrite), при�"днуватися (accede, come over, identify oneself with, join), передплачувати (take in). (various references)

Welsh

tanysgrifio. (various references)

subscribere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "subscribe": subscribed, subscriber, subscribers, subscribes. (additional references)

Words ending with "subscribe": oversubscribe. (additional references)

Words containing "subscribe": oversubscribed, oversubscribes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Subscribe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subscibe, subscrib, subscripe, suscribe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bruises, busbies, cruises, cubbies, scribes, suberic.

-3 letters: birses, bribes, bruise, buries, burses, busier, busies, crises, cruise, cruses, cubebs, cubers, cuisse, curies, curses, cusser, issuer, rubies, scribe, scries, scrubs, sieurs, subers, sucres.

-4 letters: bices, biers, birse, bises, bribe, bries, burbs, burse, buses, cires, cress, cribs, cries, cruse, cubeb, cuber, cubes, curbs, cures, curie, curse.

+1 letter: scrubbiest, subscribed, subscriber, subscribes.

+2 letters: subscribers.

+4 letters: oversubscribe.

+5 letters: oversubscribed, oversubscribes.