{
  "id": "subscribe.service",
  "term": "subscribe",
  "sense": "service",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "digital",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to receive regular content from a source",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "receive.communication",
      "regular.frequency",
      "content.material",
      "source.origin"
    ],
    "interaction": "the source repeat send content and the person receive it each time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "ongoing commitment",
      "subscriber status",
      "periodic delivery"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The New York Times sends daily print editions to 500,000 homes across the U.S.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Netflix delivers monthly episodes of 'Stranger Things' to users who pay for the streaming service.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Subscribers to the journal Nature receive 52 issues per year via academic libraries.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "receive.communication",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "subscription is a form of receiving communication"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "subscribe",
    "subscribed",
    "subscribes",
    "subscribing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-subscribe.service"
}