subscribe
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin sub- (“under”) + scribere (“to write”)
Pronunciation [edit]
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- Rhymes: -aɪb
Verb [edit]
subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)
- (ergative) 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?
- To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
- To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
- I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- To pay money to be a member of an organization.
- To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
- 1913: Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography — […] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;
- (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations — The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
- (archaic) To write one’s name at the bottom of a document, to sign.
- (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
- (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to sign up to receive a publication
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to pay for the provision of a service
to believe or agree with an idea
to promise to contribute
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to agree to buy shares in a company
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to write underneath
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Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
subscrībe
- second-person singular present active imperative of subscrībō
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
subscribe (infinitive subscribir)
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subscribir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subscribir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of subscribir.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English verbs
- English ergative verbs
- en:Business
- en:Finance
- English archaic terms
- English terms with obsolete senses
- Latin verb forms
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb imperative forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb second-person forms
- Spanish verb affirmative forms
- Spanish verb informal forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ir
- Spanish verb indicative forms
- Spanish verb formal forms
- Spanish verb present forms
- Spanish verb third-person forms
