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MEMBERSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The body of members of an organization or group
Example:
he joined the ranks of the unemployed
Synonyms:
membership; rank
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("membership" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Holonyms ("membership" is a member of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Derivation:
member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))
member (anything that belongs to a set or class)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being a member
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("membership" is a kind of...):
relationship (a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries)
Derivation:
member (an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations))
member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))
member (anything that belongs to a set or class)
Context examples:
The International Society of Preventive Oncology (ISPO) is the forum of an international membership committed to the study of interactive etiologic factors in cancer development and their impact on prevention, detection, and management of neoplastic diseases.
(International Society of Preventive Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)
You might want to go back to the gym in the last week of December, and thanks to an influx of sterling assignments, you will be able to afford membership in an upscale gym—you will find going there quite motivating and fun.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
