Meaning

• 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 or a cell phone plan.

• To believe or agree with a theory or an idea (used with to).

  "I don’t subscribe to that theory."

• To pay money to be a member of an organization.

• To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.

• To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

  "Each man subscribed ten dollars."

• To agree to buy shares in a company.

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

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

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

• To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

• To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.

• To declare over one's signature; to publish.

• To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.

  "My YouTube channel has reached 100,000 subscribers."