Definition of "subscribe"

/səbˈskɹaɪb/

verb
third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed
1. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
2. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
3. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea (used with to).
4. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
5. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
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  […] 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;
  1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography
6. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
7. (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
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  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.
  1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
8. (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
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  All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
  1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎
9. (archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
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  [They] subscribed their names under them.
  c. 1510, Thomas More, The Life of Pico della Mirandola
10. (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
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  Admit no other way to save his life , (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, But in the loss of question) […]
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
11. (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
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  I will subscribe him a coward.
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
13. (intransitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.
14. (intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.

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