Definition of subscription

• n. - The act of subscribing.
• n. - That which is subscribed.
• n. - A paper to which a signature is attached.
• n. - The signature attached to a paper.
• n. - Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
• n. - Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
• n. - 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.
• n. - Submission; obedience.
• n. - That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
• n. - 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.