{
    "term": "subscription",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an amount of money that you pay regularly to receive a service, be a member of a club, support a charity or receive regular copies of a newspaper or magazine; the act of paying this money",
            "sensetop": "subscription to/for somethingby subscription",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an annual subscription"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a subscription to Netflix",
                    "contextForm": "subscription to/for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a monthly subscription to Oxfam"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **take out a subscription** to ‘Newsweek’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **cancel/renew a subscription**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Copies are available by subscription.",
                    "contextForm": "by subscription"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you wish to take out a full twelve-month subscription to the journal?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the articles require a subscription."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has already sold 500 000 new subscriptions for the magazine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a yearly subscription for a print version of the journal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is available through an annual subscription service."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 30-day free trial subscription"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a one-year subscription to this service"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Club subscriptions are due annually by the end of January."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["annual", "monthly", "yearly"],
                "verb + subscription": ["buy", "pay", "purchase"],
                "subscription + noun": ["fee", "price", "rate"],
                "preposition": ["subscription for", "subscription to"],
                "phrases": ["a month’s, year’s, etc. subscription"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the act of people paying money for something to be done",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A statue in his memory was erected by **public subscription**."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈskrɪpʃn/",
                "audio": "su/subscription/subscription__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈskrɪpʃn/",
                "audio": "su/subscription/subscription__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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’."
}