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means A recurring payment that buys ongoing access to a service or good, rather than permanent ownership of it.

from From Latin 'subscribere' — 'sub' (under) plus 'scribere' (to write) — literally to write one's name underneath a document. It first meant signing your name to agree to something, like endorsing a petition or pledging money to a cause. The sense drifted toward paying in advance for a periodical or service once people began 'signing on' to receive regular issues of newspapers and journals, and the written signature faded into the background while the recurring payment stuck.