subscribe

verb14

1. •
   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?
2. •
   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.
3. •
   To pay money to be a member of an organization.
4. •
   To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.

   • Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
5. •
   To register for notifications about an event or similar.

   • If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.
6. •
   To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].

   • I don’t subscribe to that theory.
7. •
   To agree to buy shares in a company.

   • The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up. — 1776
8. •
   To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
9. •
   To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

   • Each man subscribed ten dollars.
10. •
    To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

    • [They] subscribed their names under them. — 1510
11. •
    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.
12. •
    (no longer used) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

    • Admit no other way to save his life , (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, But in the loss of question) […] — 1603
13. •
    (no longer used) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
14. •
    (no longer used) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

    • I will subscribe him a coward. — 1598