Definition of "subscribe" []

• To pledge or contribute (a sum of money). (verb-transitive)
• To sign (one's name) at the end of a document. (verb-transitive)
• To sign one's name to in attestation, testimony, or consent: subscribe a will. (verb-transitive)
• To authorize (someone) to receive or access electronic texts or services, especially over the Internet. (verb-transitive)
• 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. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "LORD NORTH, who had a great antipathy to music, being asked why he did not subscribe to the Ancient Concerts, and it being urged as a reason for it that his brother the Bishop of Winchester did, "Ay," replied his lordship, "if I was as _deaf_ as my brother, I would _subscribe too_.""
• "Those individuals who did not subscribe from the first issues have found it impossible to complete their files except by photocopying the missing issues."
• "The info about the effort/time to subscribe is sooo true."