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say it: suhb-SKRIP-shuhn
subscription is a noun meaning "a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time". It is pronounced /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/ — suhb-SKRIP-shuhn. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time
agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name
a pledged contribution
the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)
“the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for subscription come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.