subscription
[noun]
Synonyms:
- membership fee, annual payment, dues
- donation, contribution, gift

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English Thesaurus: payment, instalment, deposit, subscription, tip, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

sub‧scrip‧tion /səbˈskrɪpʃən/ noun

1. [uncountable and countable] an amount of money you pay, usually once a year, to receive copies of a newspaper or magazine, or receive a service, or the act of paying money for this
subscription to
Are you interested in taking out a subscription to ‘Newsweek’ (=arranging to buy it on a regular basis)?
You may cancel your subscription at any time.
I’ve decided not to renew my subscription.

2. [uncountable and countable] British English an amount of money you pay regularly to be a member of an organization or to help its work, or the act of paying money for this
subscription to
a subscription to Amnesty International

3. [uncountable] when people in a country or place give money in order to pay for something to be done:
The church’s 120-foot Gothic spire was paid for by public subscription in 1939.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

subscription
noun
ADJ. annual, monthly, yearly, etc. | full
VERB + SUBSCRIPTION pay | take out | cancel
SUBSCRIPTION + NOUN fee, rate
PREP. ~ to Do you wish to take out a full twelve-month subscription to the journal?
PHRASES a year's/month's/lifetime's, etc. subscription The prize was a lifetime's subscription to ‘Newsweek’.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

subscription

an annual/monthly subscription
An annual subscription to the magazine costs $20.
take out a subscription (=pay to get something regularly for a year)
She took out a subscription to the Scientific American.
cancel your subscription
Please give a month's notice if you are cancelling your subscription.
renew your subscription (=pay again so you can keep getting something)
It’s time to renew your subscription.
pay a subscription
We pay a monthly subscription for the sports channel.
a subscription fee
If you pay a subscription fee, you can watch matches on the Internet.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

payment an amount of money that you pay for something, especially when it is only one part of the total amount you have to pay:
They have a monthly car payment of £220.
instalment British English, installment American English a regular payment you make to pay back money that you have borrowed or to pay for things that you have already received:
I borrowed $2,000, which was to be paid back in monthly installments of $250.
deposit (also down payment) part of the cost of something that you pay before you get it, so that it will not be sold to anyone else:
They used the money they inherited as a down payment on a house.
The hotel asks for a $20 deposit to reserve a room.
subscription an amount of money you pay, usually once a year, to receive copies of a newspaper or magazine:
A subscription to the magazine is $52 a year.
tip a small amount of money that you give someone, for example a waitress or taxi driver, in addition to paying for a service they have given you:
I usually leave a 10% tip.
premium the amount you pay for insurance each year:
your monthly life insurance premiums

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲