subscriber

From subscribe + -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)

subscriber (plural subscribers)

1. A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.

   Our magazine has over ten thousand subscribers.

   • 2024 April 18, Nicole Sperling, Benjamin Mullin, “Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 April 2024:

     The aim is to better appeal to the varied interests of Netflix’s sprawling subscriber base. […] “All signs point to Netflix having reached escape velocity, with subscribers scaling far faster than investors expected,” Mr. Greenfield said.

2. (programming) A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
   • 2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175:

     An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.

3. A person undersigned.

   Synonym: undersigned

   Near-synonyms: signatory, signer

subscriber

1. to subscribe