"subscribe" meaning in English

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      "form": "subscribe",
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    },
    {
      "form": "subscribes",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subscribed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subscribed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subscribing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don’t subscribe to that theory."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To believe or agree with a theory or an idea."
      ],
      "id": "simple-subscribe-en-verb-wmqgbJtQ"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To pay money to be a member of an organization."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1913: Theodore Roosevelt, autobiography — ... under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund."
      ],
      "id": "simple-subscribe-en-verb-2HXdHV9R"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Business",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations — 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."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To agree to buy shares in a company."
      ],
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        "business"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write one's name at the bottom of a document, to sign."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "To sign away; to give up."
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      "glosses": [
        "To admit to being inferior or in the wrong."
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        "old, no longer used"
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    {
      "ipa": "/səbˈskraɪb/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "subscribe"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "subscribe",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subscribes",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subscribed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subscribed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subscribing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "2": "e"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don’t subscribe to that theory."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To believe or agree with a theory or an idea."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To pay money to be a member of an organization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1913: Theodore Roosevelt, autobiography — ... under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Business"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations — 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To agree to buy shares in a company."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "business"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old words"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write one's name at the bottom of a document, to sign."
      ],
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        "old, no longer used"
      ]
    },
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        "Old words"
      ],
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        "To sign away; to give up."
      ],
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        "old, no longer used"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "Old words"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To admit to being inferior or in the wrong."
      ],
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        "old, no longer used"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "US"
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  "word": "subscribe"
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