A subscription or regular payment arrangement for receiving goods, services, or performances over a period of time.
From French abonnement, derived from abonner (to subscribe). The French term comes from the phrase à bon (to the good), suggesting an agreement made in good faith. It entered English from French in the 18th century to describe subscription systems.
This French word became English during the rise of newspapers and periodicals—abonnement was literally how the publishing industry invented the subscription model that still runs Netflix and Spotify today.
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