subscriber
nounUS /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/
Etymology From subscribe + -er.
1
A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
- Our magazine has over ten thousand subscribers.
- 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.2024 April 18, Nicole Sperling, Benjamin Mullin, “Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024:
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
- An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175:
3
A person undersigned.
- Near-synonyms: signatory, signer