Word Study
subscriber
CIDE DICTIONARY
subscriber, n.
- One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing. [1913 Webster]
- One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
subscriber, n.
1 a person who subscribes.
2 a person paying for the hire of a telephone line.
1 a person who subscribes.
2 a person paying for the hire of a telephone line.
Idiom
subscriber trunk dialling Brit. the automatic connection of trunk calls by dialling without the assistance of an operator.
THESAURUS
subscriber
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