Word Finder - subscriptions

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Access to a resource for a period of time, generally for payment.

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I have a monthly subscription to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

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The formal acceptance of something, especially when verified with a signature.

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The signing of one's name.

A few free libraries are supported by donations and subscriptions or charities.

All these schools are supported by voluntary subscriptions and, donations, and instruct both boys and girls.

Bishop Williams, a kinsman of Cromwell's, relates at this time that he was "a common spokesman for sectaries, and maintained their part with great stubbornness"; and his earliest extant letter (in 1635) is an appeal for subscriptions for a puritan lecturer.

Adding to this 1,240,000 of communal and provincial subsidies, the product of the labor of inmates, temporary subscriptions, &c., the net revenue available for charity was, during i88o, 3,860,000.

Finally, various receipts of which the principal separately specified are government share of railway receipts (Oriental railways and Smyrna-Cassaba railway), ET201,710, and " subscriptions " for the Hejaz railway, ET264,600, form Section VIII.

The League of Mercy, under royal charter, operates in conjunction with the Fund in the collection of small subscriptions.

The great undertaking was supported by liberal subscriptions, and Walton's political opinions did not deprive him of the help of the Commonwealth; the paper used was freed from duty, and the interest of Cromwell in the work was acknowledged in the original preface, part of which was afterwards cancelled to make way for more loyal expressions towards that restored monarchy under which Oriental studies in England immediately began to languish.

Littre and others, with Comte's approval, published an appeal for subscriptions, and on the money thus contributed Comte subsisted for the remaining nine years of his life.

Booth's scheme for Social Relief, described in In Darkest England, and the Way Out (1890), attracted wide-spread interest, and was started with subscriptions amounting to over £ioo,000.

Then he became, or says he became, secretary to a Greek archimandrite who was travelling in Switzerland to collect subscriptions for the rebuilding of the Holy Sepulchre; then he went to Paris, and, with recommendations from the French ambassador at Soleure, saw something of good society; then he returned on foot through Lyons to Savoy, hearing that Madame de Warens was at Chambery.

They are controlled by the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, founded in 1859, and are supported partly by subscriptions of members, partly by gate-money and partly by an allowance from the city of Philadelphia.

The revenue is derived partly from subscriptions, partly from gate-money, from the fine concert-hall and refreshment pavilions, and from sales.

The Society is not assisted by the state or the municipality, but derives its revenue from the subscriptions of Fellows, gate-money, Garden receipts and so forth.

In other cases again, as in the case of London, the income is derived partly from the subscriptions of members, who in return receive privilege§ as to admission, and partly from gate-money and menagerie receipts, all the income being expended on the maintenance of the institution and on scientific purposes.

The duties of churchwardens comprise the provision of necessaries for divine service, so far as the church funds or voluntary subscriptions permit, the collecting the offertory of the congregation, the keeping of order during the divine service, and the giving of offenders into custody; the assignment of seats to parishioners; the guardianship of the movable goods of the church; the preservation and repair of the church and churchyard, the fabric and the fixtures; and the presentment of offences against ecclesiastical law.

In 1861 Antoine de Tounens (1820-1878), a French adventurer in Chile, proclaimed himself king of Araucania under the title of Orelie Antoine I., and tried to obtain subscriptions from France to support his enterprise.

He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian, with notes containing a history of modern Latin verse; but subscriptions did not come in, and the volume never appeared.

He had received large subscriptions for his promised edition of Shakespeare; he had lived on those subscriptions during some years; and he could not without disgrace omit to perform his part of the contract.

The subscriptions having come in but sparsely, Liszt took the matter in hand, and the monument was completed at his expense, and unveiled at a musical festival conducted by Spohr and himself in 1845.

It was his most cherished ambition to see before he died an adequate Roman Catholic cathedral in Westminster, and he laboured untiringly to secure subscriptions, with the result that its foundation stone was laid in 1895, and that when he died, on the r9th of June 1903, the building was so far complete that a Requiem Mass was said there over his body before it was removed to its resting-place at Mill Hill Park.

The expenses of the colonies are met by voluntary subscriptions, but it has been found that the persons who enter the free colonies remain there and few fresh cases are received.

The Devonshire hospital, formerly known as the Bath Charity, is a benevolent institution, supported by voluntary subscriptions.

The governors were directed to regulate religious instruction in secular schools, to prevent horse-stealing, to control subscriptions collected for the holy places in Palestine, to regulate the advertisements of medicines and the printing on cigarette papers, to examine the quality of quinine soap and overlook the cosmetics and other toilet articles - such as soap, starch, brillantine, tooth-brushes and insect-powder - provided by chemists.

Subscriptions to the amount of nearly £io,000 were obtained, and many learned men addressed themselves to the work of collation, Bruns of Helmstadt making himself specially useful as regarded MSS.

It was evident from the speeches made on the occasion that there was not much cordiality between the various leaders, but the outward solidarity of the party was calculated to bring in renewed subscriptions both at home and from America.

Subscriptions shall fall due on the first day of April.

Low cost premiums were offered by The American agriculturist for a small number of subscriptions or even a single subscription.

For more information on subscriptions, including those for corporate associates, see annual SfEP subscriptions.

Broadband subscriptions rose to 69.2 per cent compared with 49.1 per cent compared with 49.1 per cent in March 2005.

Broadband subscriptions rose to 69.2 per cent compared with 49.1 per cent in March 2005.

Also I am totally flabbergasted that SCCC would accept this shoddy piece of programming which could cost them dearly in terms of lost subscriptions.

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Growth Company Investor does not offer pro-rata refunds on subscriptions outside any trial period.

The total Library collection comprises over a million volumes and 3000 current periodical subscriptions.

Full-text subscriptions Precision Agriculture Search / Browse methods You can browse the list of journals by title or subject.

So his degree would cost him less per week than his magazine subscriptions!

These universities tend to have rich electronic journal subscriptions.

Subscriptions are kept as low as possible and all club officers are unpaid volunteers.

The establishment of the Tiro Nacional was enthusiastically received by all classes in Buenos Aires, the men turning out regularly to drill, and the women aiding the movement by collecting subscriptions for the purpose of armament and other necessaries.

For his conduct in signing the advertisement soliciting subscriptions for the relief of the relatives of the Americans " murdered by the king's troops at Lexington and Concord," he was tried at the Guildhall on the 4th of July 1777, before Lord Mansfield, found guilty, and committed to the King's Bench prison in St George's Fields, from which he only emerged after a year's durance, and after a loss in fines and costs amounting to X1 200.

See also Searching for journals Current journal subscriptions, for a list of journals relevant to English studies.

Yearly subscriptions will be received in advance, or each number may be paid for on delivery.

In the digital media business, for instance, your primary revenue models are advertising and subscriptions (though variations exist with each of these approaches).

Babies Online offers numerous freebies for babies of all ages, including free one-year subscriptions to Baby Talk Magazine and American Baby Magazine.

Free4Baby has samples, coupons, magazines, toys, subscriptions, gifts, newsletters, and more.

They offer free shipping on all orders, weekly rentals at low prices and no monthly subscriptions!

Most of the time, these are subscriptions that include magazines or books, and they are pumped up with promises of additional items like stuffed animals or other toys.

Magazine subscriptions sound insincere, but if you give the right magazine to the right person, then you can be seen as observant!

Most subscriptions run anywhere from $10 to $25 per year, so it's a good inexpensive gift that they'll remember each time they receive the magazine.

There are cost savings for annual subscriptions.