subscription

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

sub·scrip·tion [subscription subscriptions] BrE [səbˈskrɪpʃn] NAmE [səbˈskrɪpʃn] noun countable, uncountable
1. an amount of money you pay, usually once a year, to receive regular copies of a newspaper or magazine, etc; the act of paying this money
•an annual subscription
•~ (to/for sth) to take out a subscription to ‘Newsweek’
•to cancel/renew a subscription
•Copies are available by subscription.
•Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January.
2. (BrE)a sum of money that you pay regularly to a charity, or to be a member of a club or to receive a service; the act of paying this money
Syn: ↑donation
•a monthly subscription to Oxfam
3. the act of people paying money for sth to be done
•A statue in his memory was erected by public subscription.

Word Origin:
late Middle English (referring to a signature or short piece of writing at the end of a document): from Latin subscriptio(n-), from subscribere ‘write below’, from sub- ‘under’ + scribere ‘write’.

Synonyms:
payment
premium • contribution • subscription • repayment • deposit • instalment
These are all words for an amount of money that you pay or are expected to pay, or for the act of paying.
payment • an amount of money that you pay or are expected to pay; the act of paying: ▪ ten monthly payments of $50 ◇ ▪ payment in advance
premium • an amount of money that you pay once or regularly for an insurance policy; an extra payment added to the basic rate; a higher amount of money than usual: ▪ an insurance premium ◇ ▪ a premium for express delivery
contribution • a sum of money that you pay regularly to your employer or the governmentin order to pay for benefits such as health insurance, a pension, etc: ▪ You can increase your monthly contributions to the pension plan.
subscription • an amount of money you pay in advance to receive regular copies of a newspaper or magazine or to receive a service: ▪ a subscription to ‘Newsweek’
repayment • (BrE) an amount of money that you pay regularly to a bank, etc. until you have returned all the money that you owe; the act of paying this money: ▪ the repayments on the loan
deposit • an amount of money that you pay as the first part of a larger payment: ▪ We've put down a 5% deposit on the house.
instalment • one of a number of payments that you make regularly over a period of time until you have paid for sth: ▪ We paid for the car by/in instalments.
(a/an) annual/monthly/regular payment/premium/contributions/subscription/repayment/deposit/instalment
payment/repayment in full
to pay a(n) premium/contribution/subscription/deposit/instalment
to make (a) payment/repayment/deposit
to meet/keep up (with) (the) payment(s)/the premiums/(the) repayment(s)/the instalments

Example Bank:
•Do you wish to take out a full twelve-month subscription to the journal?
•It is available through an annual subscription service.
•Most of the articles require a subscription.
•The company has already sold 500 000 new subscriptions for the magazine.
•The prize was a lifetime's subscription to ‘Newsweek’.
•a 30-day free trial subscription
•a one-year subscription to this service
•a yearly subscription for a print version of the journal
•A statue in his memory was erected by public subscription.
•Club subscriptions are due annually by the end of January.
•Do you think we should get a subscription to ‘Newsweek’?
•to cancel/renew a subscription