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Vinony

subscriber

noun

  1. someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Latin subscrīberebor. Middle English subscriben English subscribe Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English subscriber From subscribe + -er.

  1. A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

    “Our magazine has over ten thousand subscribers.”

    “The aim is to better appeal to the varied interests of Netflix’s sprawling subscriber base. […] “All signs point to Netflix having reached escape velocity, with subscribers scaling far faster than investors expected,” Mr. Greenfield said.”

  2. A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.

    “An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.”

  3. A person undersigned.

    “Near-synonyms: signatory, signer”