subscription, n. 1. payment, remission, amount paid, price, cost; money, grant, grant-in-aid, subvention, subsidy, stipend, pension, alimony, subsistence allowance; endowment, contribution, oblation, donation, charity, alms; gratuity, tip, gift, present, bounty, largess.
2. purchase agreement, agreement to buy, contract; pledge, obligation, responsibility, investment.
3. outstanding pledges, amount due or owed, income from a drive; fund, collection, offering, Eccles. offertory.
4. signing, signing on the dotted line, signature; countersignature, underwriting, endorseent, guarantee.
5. postscript, P.S., afterthought, afterword, epilogue, colophon; postfix, suffix, affix; attached signature, autograph, hand, inscription, Inf. John Hancock, Inf. John Henry; attachment, addendum, appendage, tag, supplement, codicil, appendix, rider, addition, amendment.
6. approval, vote of approval, yes or aye vote, ratification, stamp of approval, seal, authorization, Inf. O.K.; assent, nod, consent, permission, Inf. the green light, Inf. the go-ahead; sanction, countenance, blessing, condonation; agreement with, acceptance of, belief in, faith in, trust in, confidence in.
subsequent, adj. following, ensuing, succeeding, next, coming, to come, future; successive, consecutive, sequent, sequential, consequent, sequacious.
subserve, v. promote, encourage, foster, cultivate, nourish, nurture, help develop; advance, further, help along, bolster, boost, recommend, advocate, speak in favor of, push for, Inf. plug or put in a plug for; patronize, support, endorse, sanction, back, finance; conduce to, contribute to, add to, improve, strengthen, better, upgrade, ameliorate, meliorate, enhance, enrich, fatten, augment; help or help out, lend a hand, give a helping hand, give a leg up, do a good turn, aid, assist, succor; be of service to, be of some use to, be useful to, benefit, serve [s.o.'s] purposes, do some good for; enable, empower, make possible, pave the way, facilitate, facilitate matters, make things easier for, grease the wheels, soap the way.
subservient, adj. 1. subordinate, subaltern, junior, lower; secondary, auxiliary, accessory, ancillary, subsidiary; inferior, second-class, less than, below, under; dependent, subject, under [s.o.'s] thumb.
2. servile, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, submissive; docile, tractable, manageable, unassertive, compliant, obedient, deferential, yielding; truckling, obeisant, prostrate, on one's hands and knees; slavish, groveling, cringing, cowering, crawling; sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, fawning, flattering, toadyish, toadying; unctuous, oily, ingratiating, SI. bootlicking, SI. footlicking, SI. brown-nosing, Inf. apple-polishing.
3. useful, instrumental, valuable, beneficial, advantageous, favorable, good; helpful, aidful, contributory, contributive, conducive.
subside, v. 1. sink down, sink back, descend, lower, decline; settle, precipitate, gravitate; recede, retrocede, retire, fall back, draw back; lapse, sag, droop, dip, slump, fall off, fail.
2. abate, moderate, let up, mitigate, intermit; quiet down, calm down, SI. simmer down, lull, diminish, lessen, slacken, remit; wane, ebb, taper off, fade away, die out, dwindle, Inf. peter out; approach an end, come to a close, be on the way out, obsolesce, be on the wane.
subsidiary, adj. 1. auxiliary, additional, supplemental, supplementary, complementing, reserve, extra; accessory, ancillary; tributary, contributory; helping, assisting, assistant, adjuvant, aiding, abetting, ministrant; ministerial, instrumental.