EGAVE

subscribe

About 2.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
  2. verb To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
    Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
  3. verb To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
    Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
  4. verb To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
    I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.
  5. verb To believe or agree with a theory or an idea .mw-parser-output .object-usage-tag{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .deprecated{color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-lime-8,olivedrab)}[with to].
    I don’t subscribe to that theory.
  6. verb To pay money to be a member of an organization.
  7. verb To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
  8. verb To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
    Each man subscribed ten dollars.

Similar words

sign take support stand subscribe to subscription sign-up signatory registration register

Often followed by

to for the myself a and in their an

Word family

subscribed subscriber subscribers subscribes subscribing

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