SUBSCRIPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subscription mean? 

• SUBSCRIPTION (noun)
  The noun SUBSCRIPTION has 4 senses:

1. a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time

2. agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name

3. a pledged contribution

4. the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)

  Familiarity information: SUBSCRIPTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSCRIPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("subscription" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("subscription" is a kind of...):

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A pledged contribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("subscription" is a kind of...):

contribution; donation (act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity)

Derivation:

subscribe (pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature

Hypernyms ("subscription" is a kind of...):

handwriting (the activity of writing by hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subscription"):

execution; execution of instrument ((law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable)

Derivation:

subscribe (mark with one's signature; write one's name (on))

 Context examples 

Because fifteen pounds is not enough for board and teaching, and the deficiency is supplied by subscription.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was also a postscript to the effect that though The Billow carried no free-list, it took great pleasure in sending him a complimentary subscription for the ensuing year.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is true, after six months' correspondence, he effected a compromise, whereby he received a safety razor for Turtle-catching, and that The Acropolis, having agreed to give him five dollars cash and five yearly subscriptions: for The Northeast Trades, fulfilled the second part of the agreement.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)