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Definition of Subscription

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

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

3. Noun. A pledged contribution.

4. Noun. The act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document). "The deed was attested by the subscription of his signature"

Definition of Subscription

1. n. The act of subscribing.

Definition of Subscription

1. Noun. access to a resource for a period of time. ¹

2. Noun. the formal acceptance of something, especially when verified with a signature ¹

3. Noun. the signing of one's name ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subscription

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subscription

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Literary usage of Subscription

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The subscription, conceding for argument that it was valid, and all liability ... The railroad company has largely relied on the subscription of the city, ..."

2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1895)
"Subscription-books at matriculation. See Clark's Reg. Univ. Oxon. ... (iii) Subscription-book Au; 1695-1706. 105. Books of subscriptions to the Act of ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Evidence <g=>441 (9) — Written subscription contract cannot be varied by parol. A written subscription to corporate stock cannot be varied by proof of a ..."

4. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1899)
"So remember and adapt yourself, your library and your assistants all to this one end. CHANGING FROM A Subscription LIBRARY TO A FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. ..."

5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1899)
"'T'HE day of the subscription or proprietary library is well nigh past, except as a means to a greater end, that of establishing its successor, ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"In the find- rags then presented, the order of the county court for the subscription, and the appointment of Betz to make the subscription on the books of ..."

7. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy by William Paley (1827)
"Subscription to articles of religion, though no more than a declaration to the subscriber's ... The bishop who receives the subscription is not the imposer, ..."

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