Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being a member.
- noun The total number of members in a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a member; the office or position of a member, as of Parliament.
- noun The members of a body regarded collectively: as, the whole membership of the church.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being a member.
- noun The collective body of members, as of a society.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being a
member of a group or organization. - noun The body of members of an organization.
- noun set theory The fact of being a
member of aset .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the body of members of an organization or group
- noun the state of being a member
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term 'membership' describes his relationship to the Rajavis.
Shawn Amoei: Silencing the Moderate Middle Shawn Amoei 2011
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But the term membership does not express their relation to the church before they are converted.
Bertha and Her Baptism Nehemiah Adams 1842
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A third of the membership is agented and/or published, so when someone asks a question about getting an agent or about the craft or about publishing, they get answers from the people who know.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Karen Dionne, part 2 2008
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Are women scientists just not as good as their male counterparts (I'd argue no, if the National Academy membership is any measure)?
Women underrepresented in the President's National Medal of Science Awards Peggy 2007
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Are women scientists just not as good as their male counterparts (I'd argue no, if the National Academy membership is any measure)?
Archive 2007-06-01 Peggy 2007
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I do feel Council has a tendency to drift into outer space in some of its deliberations, and its physical isolation from the membership is a big part of that.
DOES YOUR LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WORK? Ms. OPL 2006
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I blogged about it here, suggesting that this group, unrepresentative of the beard and sandals membership, is seeking to seize control of the party infrastructure, putting the membership is a position of 'shut up, or ship out'.
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I just submitted your comments to KKK, they say your membership is approved.
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Does he further agree that our official estimates confirm that the cost of our membership is about £50 per head whereas the benefits in investment and other things are £300?
Government prevaricates Helen 2006
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As to the third set of extremists, the “software manufacturing” companies represented by the Business Software Alliance (CAAST in Canada): their membership is also often found guilty of copyright and patent infringement, with remedies from the courts that are often in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
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