subscription
Noun
Meaning
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.
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The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.
Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs."
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again!... If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.