unsubscribe

verbB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — scribe sits at #12,386neutral

Other forms: unsubscribed

To unsubscribe is to take your address off a list you once joined. Unsubscribe from the newsletter, click unsubscribe, hard to unsubscribe.

Every marketing email must carry a link to unsubscribe, and it has to work within a few days. Making it difficult to unsubscribe is both a common trick and, in most countries, unlawful.

Definitions of unsubscribe

1verbunsubscribeTo take your address off a list you once joined.B1
“It took three clicks and a password to unsubscribe.”

unsubscribe is an action.

Where it comes from

Latin
subscrībō
Middle English
subscriben
English
subscribe
English, today
unsubscribe

From un- + subscribe. 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

unsubscribe in the wild

Willow has been the subject of complaints about its billing practices, including making it impossible to unsubscribe through the website or app, and ignoring repeated emails requesting cancellations.
Willow (TV channel)
CAN-SPAM requires that senders of commercial emails provide a functioning opt-out mechanism by which email recipients can unsubscribe their email address from future email messages.
Suppression list
The unsubscribed email addresses are placed into a "suppression list" which is used to "suppress" future email messages to that email address.
Suppression list
In addition to functionality provided by RSS Cloud, WebSub push notifications include content of the updated feed entries and do not unsubscribe unsuspecting subscribers after 25 hours.
RSS Cloud
The leak happens when an observer fails to unsubscribe from the subject when it no longer needs to listen.
Lapsed listener problem

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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

subscribe subscriber

unsubscribe — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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