SUBSCRIBE TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does subscribe to mean? 

• SUBSCRIBE TO (verb)
  The verb SUBSCRIBE TO has 1 sense:

1. receive or obtain regularly

  Familiarity information: SUBSCRIBE TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSCRIBE TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Receive or obtain regularly

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

subscribe; subscribe to; take

Context example:

We take the Times every day

Hypernyms (to "subscribe to" is one way to...):

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

But Miss Bertram does not care three straws for him; that is your opinion of your intimate friend. I do not subscribe to it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I could tell you the moon is made of green cheese and you would subscribe to the notion, at least you would not repudiate it, because I've got dollars, mountains of them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He planned to buy some more clothes, to subscribe to many magazines, and to buy dozens of reference books that at present he was compelled to go to the library to consult.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)