subscribe

(archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

(transitive)To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.

Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.

Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

(ergative)To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?

To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.

I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.

To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].

I don’t subscribe to that theory.

To pay money to be a member of an organization.

(intransitive)To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.

(transitive)To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

Each man subscribed ten dollars.

(business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.

(obsolete)To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

(obsolete)To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.

(obsolete, transitive)To declare over one's signature; to publish.