Dictionary  sub•scrip•tionPronunciation: (sub-skrip'shun), [key] —n. 1. a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc. 2. the right to receive a periodical for a sum paid, usually for an agreed number of issues. 3. an arrangement for presenting a series of concerts, plays, etc., that one may attend by the payment of a membership fee: to purchase a 10-concert subscription. 4. Chiefly Brit.the dues paid by a member of a club, society, etc. 5. a fund raised through sums of money subscribed. 6. a sum subscribed. 7. the act of appending one's signature or mark, as to a document. 8. a signature or mark thus appended. 9. something written beneath or at the end of a document or the like. 10. a document to which a signature is attached. 11. assent, agreement, or approval expressed verbally or by signing one's name. 12. Eccles.assent to or acceptance of a body of principles or doctrines, the purpose of which is to establish uniformity. 13. Ch. of Eng.formal acceptance of the Thirty-nine Articles of 1563 and the Book of Common Prayer. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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