Membership

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The state of being a member of a group or organization..

Definitions by Sense

1. The state of being a member of a group or organization.
2. The body of members of an organization.
3. (mathematics) The fact of being a member of a set.
4. (transitive, sociolinguistics) To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.

Example Sentences

The terms of membership agreement were vague.

He has memberships in clubs in three cities.

But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in nouvelle cuisine.

Hence there resulted a division of the membership of the brotherhood into two classes, the practical and theoretic, or, as they are more commonly called, the operative and speculative, or “domatic” and “geomatic."

The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.

Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes. Each time a topic changes the listener must be re-membershipped, and during a conversation the same person may be membershipped as a doctor, a rugby player, a liberal, a gardener, a bridge player.

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Word Forms

• memberships
• membershipping
• membershipped

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