meaning of subscription
1. The act of subscribing.
2. That which is subscribed.
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.
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.
11. the act of signing your name; writing your signature as on a document; "the deed was attested by the subscription of his
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