Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of being a member.
- n. The total number of members in a group: an organization with a growing membership.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being a member; the office or position of a member, as of Parliament.
- n. The members of a body regarded collectively: as, the whole membership of the church.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being a member of a group or organization.
- n. The body of members of an organization.
- n. set theory The fact of being a member of a set.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being a member.
- n. The collective body of members, as of a society.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the body of members of an organization or group
- n. the state of being a member
Etymologies
- From member + -ship. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term 'membership' describes his relationship to the Rajavis.”
The Huffington Post: Shawn Amoei: Silencing the Moderate Middle
“But the term membership does not express their relation to the church before they are converted.”
“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
“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
“I just submitted your comments to KKK, they say your membership is approved.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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'.”
“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.”
“NURENBERG: Georgia Williamson says she's healthier because she pays for what she calls a membership program run by her doctor in Virginia.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
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collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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Bon Voyage
Words which ship
membership, sponsorship, readership, marksmanship, workmanship, trusteeship, censorship, championship, dealership, proprietorship, friendship, fellowship and 3 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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