subscribers

4 definitions • 6 examples

someone who subscribes to a product, service, or organization:

Cable television companies have launched major campaigns to increase their number of subscribers.

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.

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.

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.