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Meaning of 'subscription' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Subscription [ n.]
- The act of subscribing.
- That which is subscribed.
- A paper to which a signature is attached.
- The signature attached to a paper.
- Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
- Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
- The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.
- Submission; obedience.
- That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
- A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.

Meaning of 'subscription' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . subscription [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)
Example in sentence:
  • the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature

Nearby Words:

sub sub judice sub- sub-base sub-bass subacid subacrid subacromial subact subaction

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