subscriber
noun [ C ]
uk/səbˈskraɪbər/ us/-bɚ/ COMMERCE
someone who pays to receive a newspaper or magazine regularly or to use a phone line or internet service:
broadband/cable/internet subscribers
subscriber to sth They have 27,950 subscribers to their daily email newsletter.
The mobile phone company has a global subscriber base of 59m users.
STOCK MARKET
someone who formally asks to buy shares when they are issued :
A sharp fall in fourth-quarter subscriber numbers overshadowed a rise in full-year pre-tax profits.
LAW
someone who signs a memorandum of association (= document needed to officially form a new company) of a new company and promises to buy a particular number of shares:
The minimum figure for share capital can be of any amount, provided the subscribers to the memorandum take at least one share each.