payment vs subscription

subscription vs payment

payment and subscription both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
payment	Yes	No	No	No
subscription	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, subscription is a hyponym of payment; that is, subscription is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than payment:

payment: a sum of money paid or a claim discharged
subscription: a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time

Other hyponyms of payment include royalty, bonus, incentive, overpayment, underpayment, regular payment, blood money, recompense, refund, conscience money, support payment, reward, bribe, payoff, residual, benefit, lump sum, final payment, payoff, remission, remitment, remittal, remittance, quittance, repayment, token payment, penalty, pittance, insurance premium, premium, installment, deposit, down payment, satisfaction, credit, deferred payment, cash, immediate payment.

payment (noun)	subscription (noun)
the act of paying money	a pledged contribution
an act of requiting; returning in kind	the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)
a sum of money paid or a claim discharged	agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name
	a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time

Difference between payment and subscription

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