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/səbˈskɹaɪb/ verb B2
  1. To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
  2. To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation. (transitive) · Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.· Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
  3. 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. 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. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to]. · I don’t subscribe to that theory.
  6. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
  7. To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund. (intransitive)
  8. To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount. (transitive) · Each man subscribed ten dollars.

He/she/it subscribes · Past subscribed · Past participle subscribed · -ing form subscribing

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Base form
subscribe
He/she/it
subscribes
Past
subscribed
Past participle
subscribed
-ing form
subscribing

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Yet, though looked at with some curiosity and reserve by his more cultivated neighbours, he soon acquired a great popularity among the villagers, subscribing handsomely to all local objects, and attending their smoking concerts and other functions, where, having a remarkably rich tenor voice, he was always ready to oblige with an excellent song.
The Valley of Fear, p. 23 · C1
They would willingly have subscribed to that soup-plate medal of which the criminal had spoken, but an unappreciative Bench took a less favourable view, and the Killer returned to those shades from which he had just emerged.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 95 · B2

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.