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subscriber - 3 dictionary results

sub⋅scrib⋅er

[suhb-skrahy-ber]
–noun
1. a person, company, etc., that subscribes, as to a publication or concert series.
2. a homeowner, apartment dweller, business, etc., that pays a monthly charge to be connected to a television cable service.
3. a person who promises to donate a sum of money, purchase stock, etc.

Origin:
1590–1600; subscribe + -er 1
sub·scribe   (səb-skrīb')   
v.   sub·scribed, sub·scrib·ing, sub·scribes

v.   tr.
  1. To pledge or contribute (a sum of money).
  2. To sign (one's name) at the end of a document.
  3. To sign one's name to in attestation, testimony, or consent: subscribe a will.
  4. To authorize (someone) to receive or access electronic texts or services, especially over the Internet.
v.   intr.
    1. To contract to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication, for tickets to a series of events or performances, or for a utility service, for example.
    2. To receive or be allowed to access electronic texts or services by subscription.
  1. To promise to pay or contribute money: subscribe to a charity.
  2. To feel or express hearty approval: I subscribe to your opinion. See Synonyms at assent.
  3. To sign one's name.
  4. To affix one's signature to a document as a witness or to show consent.

[Middle English subscriben, to sign, from Latin subscrībere : sub-, sub- + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.]
sub·scrib'er n.

Subscriber

Sub*scrib"er\, n. 1. One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

2. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like. --Dryden.
Language Translation for : subscriber
Spanish: persona que dona dinero; suscriptor, abonado,
German: der, *die Abonnentin, der, *die Spender(in),
Japanese: 寄付者
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