(v. t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
(v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
(v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
(v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
(v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
(v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
(v. i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.
(v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
(v. i.) To become surely; -- with for.
(v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
(v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
(v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
(2) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
(3) The huge new TV money first arrived in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch’s executives realised that only football could bring the battalions of addicted subscribers they needed to grow Sky TV.
(4) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
(5) "This is a real problem for Setanta, they are not going to have a critical mass of matches to persuade people to subscribe," said one city analyst.
(6) The company said it has spent £172m on what it terms subscriber acquisition costs and marketing in the year to the end of March, a £20m increase over the previous year.
(7) Movie and TV service Netflix announced Monday that it would raise prices for new subscribers and use the new funds to buy more content.
(8) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
(9) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
(10) Under the draft proposals, internet service providers with more than 400,000 subscribers will start collecting the details of customers suspected of sharing copyrighted content next year, in order to send them warning letters.
(11) TL 7 CHEWING SAND HAZEL HAYES Stats 25,000 subscribers, 800,000 views Who is she?
(12) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
(13) If only 5% of those 40 million subscribe to the Daily , that's already two million customers."
(14) Eighty-four percent of the discrete citations retrieved were from 664 periodicals subscribed to by both services.
(15) The company effectively put itself up for sale in August amid a heavy losses from its failed PlayBook tablet and a decline in its handset business and subscriber numbers and revenues.
(16) The service will be offered at no extra cost to subscribers who have already signed up for Sky+HD, although customers will need a broadband connection.
(17) The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said at Smith's tribunal that it believed some of the information held by the covert organisation and accessible to companies that subscribed to the service "could only have been supplied by the police or the security services".
(18) The marketing slogan was: “There are 1,000 reasons not to believe in independent television, but just 1,000 roubles will get it for you.” Now, the price has gone up, to 4,800 roubles per year, and the channel has around 60,000 subscribers, with Muscovites making up nearly 40% of that number.
(19) He had always subscribed to the pacifist principles at the heart of Plaid Cymru's philosophy.
(20) HelloFresh sends 4m meals each month to its subscribers in the UK, US, Australia and parts of Europe.
Underwrite
Definition:
(v. t.) To write under something else; to subscribe.
(v. t.) To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals, as well as companies, may underwrite policies of insurance.
(v. i.) To practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a vessel or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(2) The Hippocratic concept of preceptor education as an alternative has much to recommend it in replacing the present system, which underwrites the cost of student education through research grants and subsidies, but greatly neglects the continuing education of the practicing physician.
(3) Our presence underwrites the multi-use legacy of the stadium and our contribution alone will pay back more than the cost of building and converting the stadium over the course of our tenancy.” West Ham added in a later statement: “The worldwide draw of hosting the most popular and watched football league in the world in such an iconic venue will add value to any sponsorship and commercial agreements related to the stadium, which the public purse stands to further benefit from.
(4) A group of ex-miners appear to have been wooed by Osborne when he visited them ahead of a trip to the Thoresby colliery in Nottinghamshire earlier this month to announce the government would underwrite a fuel-benefit scheme.
(5) These insurers underwrite coverage for over 100 million people.
(6) What if the giant corporation such as IBM, Xerox, General Electric, General Motors, and so forth, established programs to underwrite the cost of long-term care?
(7) Efforts to reform the small group market include making insurance more available by restricting the use of medical underwriting to deny access, and compressing rates to make it more affordable for high-risk groups.
(8) He clearly does not want to bite the ministerial hand that feeds but admits changes introduced as part of the government's electricity market reform policy – such as contracts that underwrite the price of renewable and nuclear-generated power – has had a dampening effect on the market.
(9) Other Republicans have called on the administration to underwrite the $122bn start-up costs of 19 nuclear reactors, whose applications are now under review by the department of energy.
(10) She said she had attempted to get it covered but no underwriters were willing to offer insurance as there were only about 500 in the world and a suitable replacement would be likely to cost more than £30,000.
(11) "We've got to build more homes – that means changing the planning laws, and at the same time underwriting the purchase and the construction of homes – we're doing that.
(12) Axa's claims and underwriting director then became involved and, with some persuading from us, you and he had a conversation about the discrepancies in your two stories.
(13) He added that the three new risks were the US, where corporate debt underwriting standards were "weakening rapidly"; the possibility that a flood of cheap money from developed countries could de-stabilise emerging markets; and the dangers involved in unwinding prolonged monetary easing in America.
(14) The documents show that Chappell’s consortium, Retail Acquisitions, defaulted on a loan a week after buying BHS, leading to higher charges, and that his advisers explored the possibility of Green underwriting the professional fees he had to pay to buy BHS.
(15) Read more “The project has already used £37.4m of public money and the agreement to underwrite cancellation costs by the government could bring the bill to the taxpayer up to £46.4m,” the report said.
(16) As a temporary method of correction joint underwriting associations appear to be the most practical suggestion.
(17) Britain has contributed around £1bn to the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSM), but the funds have remained outside a scheme used to underwrite short-term loans to Greece following a deal between the UK and Brussels in 2010 stipulating that UK funds would only be used to protect the EU.
(18) And it could be a goldmine for insurance companies, able to find out everything they ever wanted to know about the risk they're underwriting.
(19) The increase from 1947-50 to 1961-5 in mortality during all episodes of ischaemic heart disease was the same in the doctors as in the male population of England and Wales at 45-54, but at 55-64 it was less.The results in the doctors are not due to alterations over the period in length of sickness absence, or underwriting policy, or of the nomenclature used on the certificates.Well-documented changes in the smoking habits of doctors may be partly responsible for what appears to have been a relatively favourable experience of ischaemic heart disease from 1947-50 to 1961-5, especially at ages 55-64.Incidence of duodenal ulcer at ages 35-64 declined steadily in this population of doctors from 1947-50 to 1961-5.
(20) In this paper I compute the actual and allowable normal underwriting profit rates in medical malpractice, as well as in other liability lines, for six large insurance companies.