Subscription

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of subscribing.

2. That which is subscribed. Specifically:

3. A paper to which a signature is attached.

4. The signature attached to a paper.

5. Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.

6. Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.

7. 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.

8. Submission; obedience. [Obs.] You owe me no subscription. Shak.

9. That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.

10. 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.