- subscriber
- subscriber sub‧scrib‧er [səbˈskraɪbə ǁ -ər] noun [countable]1. someone who pays money regularly in order to have a newspaper or magazine sent to them, or to receive telephone, television or Internet service:
• Country Music Television currently has 15 million subscribers.
subscriber to• We are longtime subscribers to your paper.
2. FINANCE someone who asks or agrees to buy shares in a company that is offering shares to the public:subscriber for• Financial forecasts should be disclosed to intending subscribers for shares in the company.
3. FINANCE someone who agrees to become one of the first members of a limited company by signing the company's memorandum of association:subscriber to• Subscribers to the memorandum must take at least one share each.
4. a person, organization, or country that signs a document:subscriber to• Britain is not a subscriber to the convention.
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subscriber UK US /səbˈskraɪbər/ US /-bɚ/ noun [C]► COMMERCE someone who pays to receive a newspaper or magazine regularly or to use a phone line or internet service: »broadband/cable/internet subscribers
subscriber to sth »They have 27,950 subscribers to their daily email newsletter.
»The mobile phone company has a global subscriber base of 59m users.
► STOCK MARKET someone who formally asks to buy shares when they are issued : »A sharp fall in fourth-quarter subscriber numbers overshadowed a rise in full-year pre-tax profits.
► LAW someone who signs a memorandum of association (= document needed to officially form a new company) of a new company and promises to buy a particular number of shares: »The minimum figure for share capital can be of any amount, provided the subscribers to the memorandum take at least one share each.
Financial and business terms. 2012.