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subscriber

US/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,231 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: subscribers

A subscriber is someone who pays regularly to keep receiving something. A magazine subscriber, subscriber numbers, lose subscribers.

The model has taken over publishing, software and television, because a small regular payment is worth more over time than a large one-off — and because cancelling is easier to put off than paying is to agree to. Subscriber numbers are the figure such businesses live by.

Definitions of subscriber

  1. 1nounsubscriberSomeone who pays regularly to keep receiving something.C1

    “The magazine sends a free gift to every new subscriber.”

subscriber is a paying customer.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    subscrībō

  2. Middle English

    subscriben

  3. English

    subscribe

  4. English, today

    subscriber

From subscribe + -er. subscribe comes from Middle English subscriben, from Latin subscrībō. From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībō (“write beneath”). by surface analysis, sub- + scribe. Compare its native English - equivalent underwrite.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in News & Communication

Practise this word

subscriber in the wild

  • CPE can refer to devices purchased by the subscriber, or to those provided by the operator or service provider.

    Customer-premises equipment

  • Digital subscriber line (DSL), originally digital subscriber loop, is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.

    Digital subscriber line

  • In symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) services, the downstream and upstream data rates are equal.

    Digital subscriber line

  • The international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI; IM-zee) is a number that uniquely identifies every user of a cellular network.

    International mobile subscriber identity

  • A SIM card or SIM (subscriber identity module) is a type of integrated circuit, often in the form of a smart card.

    SIM card

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the subscrībō family

subscribesubscriber

subscriber — used about once every 8,182 pages · #11,231 · point at the bar for the others

  • scribe
  • ascribe
  • scribble
  • subscriber count