Membership
['membəʃɪp] or ['mɛmbɚʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) the body of members of an organization or group; 'they polled their membership'; 'they found dissension in their own ranks'; 'he joined the ranks of the unemployed'.
(noun.) the state of being a member.
Checker: Sheena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being a member.
(n.) The collective body of members, as of a society.
Typist: Norton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Being a member.[2]. Society, association, members, body of members.
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Examples
- It is as an inventor that he sets himself down in the membership list of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- AN applicant for membership in the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia is required to give a brief statement of the professional work he has done. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were men in Georgetown who filled all the requirements for membership in these churches. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Their view of national policy has always been more inclusive, perhaps for the very reason that their membership is so much more exclusive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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