membership
English
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Etymology
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[edit]membership (countable and uncountable, plural memberships)
- The state of being a member of a group or organization.
- The terms of membership agreement were vague.
- He has memberships in clubs in three cities.
- 1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:
- 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.
- 2012, The Etiquette of Freemasonry: A Handbook for the Brethren, →ISBN:
- 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 body of members of an organization.
- The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
- (mathematics) The fact of being a member of a set.
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body of members
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Verb
[edit]membership (third-person singular simple present memberships, present participle membershipping, simple past and past participle membershipped)
- (transitive, sociolinguistics) To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
- 1975 April, Malcolm Coulthard, “Discourse Analysis in English – A Short Review of the Literature”, in Language Teaching, volume 8, number 2, , page 83:
- 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.