1The action of making or agreeing to make an advance payment in order to receive or participate in something.

这份时事通讯只供订阅。

订阅一年。

1. 1.1 An arrangement by which access is granted to an online service.
   （网络服务的）订阅
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Coming soon: the ability to stream music into multiple rooms via RealNetworks' Rhapsody subscription online music service.
   • These days, subscription prices for Net access are going up.
   • In this model, a customer would pay a subscription to a service provider who would in turn pay the mesh network provider in the area involved.
   • Blockbuster today lowering the subscription price for its online rental service by two and a half dollars, to just under $15 per month.
   • The service costs £14.99 a month and includes all subscription and Net access costs.
   • Unfortunately, the prices for an online subscription to most of the journals is just as high as their print version, making it impossible to subscribe to them all.
   • On-line subscription services, as well as free access to certain pieces of educational materials, are definitely part of our plans.
   • Anyway, if you happen to have an online subscription to the Journal, you can click here to read Lippman's story.
   • All NGO pricing options involve a combination of subscription to Office and online services, or just services.
   • But if you buy a subscription to a download service offering the same music, that's part of the brave new networked world in which Europe has an edge.
   • Under Napster's subscription, you could access the same tunes without paying anywhere near that.
   • Unfortunately many of the information databases that you may want to use have access restricted by subscription.
   • I will be linking more frequently to the Journal from now on, because I finally have an online subscription.
   • You can end software piracy pretty quickly by making the software dependent on a service subscription.
   • But this study, which requires a subscription for full access, doesn't come close to proving that the therapy is bad.
   • Handing over a pound at the till makes you realise that you're spending money, but if you set up an online account with a subscription service, you may be tempted to buy a few extra tickets every now and then.
   • I agree with you, we online users will probably not pay a subscription for access to online information, simply because we don't have to.
   • Your subscription also gets you access to the tech support web pages, which include both a knowledge base and a trouble-ticket submission and tracking interface.
   • More and more free online resources are being dropped or turned into subscription services; a new front is being opened by the spread of pay-as-you-go services.
   • A subscription would permit access for a specific network.
2. 1.2 An advance payment made to receive or participate in something.
   订阅费；订购款；认购额；承购款；认捐款；捐赠款；会费
   membership is available at an annual subscription of £300

   每年缴300英镑会费即可成为该俱乐部成员。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • That service relies on insurance company payments and subscriptions.
   • Lancashire County Council will now ask for a refund of its annual subscriptions of about £27,000.
   • Members are reminded that annual subscriptions must be paid at this stage and only the scores of those whose annual subscription is paid up will count.
   • The annual golf subscriptions are now due, the members are reminded.
   • The annual multi channel subscriptions is now due and will be collected from all householders receiving the service over the next few weeks.
   • Parents of youths using the club are asked to note this and send in annual subscriptions without delay.
   • As the months rolled on, more and more aspiring riders turned up, so to control numbers the Whalley Amateur Dirt-Track Club was formed and members had to pay both annual subscriptions and to ride the track.
   • Members of the Ballyhaunis Christmas Lights committee will be collecting annual subscriptions over the coming weeks.
   • Each person pays an annual subscription and then a percentage premium on the value of the investment but with no levy on returns.
   • New membership/programme cards are available at the meeting on payment of subscriptions.
   • Annual subscriptions are just £2 and there is an illustrated talk at 7.30 pm in the Soroptimists Room on the first Wednesday of each month from October to May.
   • All societies, clubs, associations and organisations relying on annual subscriptions find renewal times somewhat fraught.
   • There is never a good time to pay bills and annual subscriptions, but some times are worse than others.
   • According to the official figures, more than one in 10 of the adult population plays this pesky game at least once a month, while 250,000 are so enthralled that they pay annual subscriptions to a golf club.
   • When you get the two options for payment subscriptions, you have to pick one of those and then pick ‘Use game card’ out of the checkboxes.
   • In paying our annual subscriptions we have the land, we have the planning permission, we have money, so build us a club.
   • The Celtic Supporters Club has issued a final reminder to members that their annual subscriptions are due now.
   • Instead people preferred to pay for content via monthly or annual subscriptions, with a spend of around $10 monthly or $48 per year being the norm.
   • The centre is financed by a grant from the South Eastern Health Board, by the local Lions Club, by local fund-raising and by annual nominal subscriptions from members.
   • Irish obstetricians left the MDU in March 2001 because their annual subscriptions rocketed from €86,360 to €500,000.

   Synonyms

   donation, contribution, offering, gift, present, grant, bestowal, endowment, subsidy, benefaction, handout

   membership fee, dues, annual payment, charge, levy, retainer
3. 1.3British The contribution of money to a fund, project, or cause.
   the school was built by public subscription in 1878

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The Albert Memorial was among many paid for by public subscription.
   • The original Nelson's Monument in London was erected in Trafalgar Square by voluntary subscription.
   • Both movements were funded by voluntary subscription, although small grants-in-aid were made to voluntary schools after 1833.
   • The Pleasant Retreat Academy was chartered in 1813 and like all academies was maintained by tuition payments or by subscription and usually served the most prosperous families.
   • Other services might be provided by voluntary bodies, by subscription or by commercial companies: hospitals, schools, piped water.
   • In the 1880s a monument commemorating both soldiers and rebels was erected on the supposed site by public subscription.
   • By 1776 he had composed Welcombe Hills, near Stratford-upon-Avon, a Poem, published by subscription the following year.
   • The rest of the middle class went to proprietary schools which were financed by subscription, or to indifferent private schools.
4. 1.4 A system in which the production of a book is wholly or partly financed by advance orders.
   通过预订来全部或部分支付出版费用的方法
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Several of these he had had printed himself, financed by advance subscription from libraries and members of learned bodies such as the Royal Asiatic Society.
   • Parents don't feel the need for subscription of any books.
   • The book was sold by subscription and met considerable success.
   • In this system, books were issued periodically and by subscription in sections or ‘numbers’, bound in limp paper covers, and sold at modest prices.

2formal A signature or short piece of writing at the end of a document.

他在信的末尾签了名又加了一个附注。

1. 2.1archaic A signed declaration or agreement.
   〈古〉签署的声明（或协议）