MEMBERSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does membership mean? 

• MEMBERSHIP (noun)
  The noun MEMBERSHIP has 2 senses:

1. the body of members of an organization or group

2. the state of being a member

  Familiarity information: MEMBERSHIP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMBERSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of members of an organization or group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

membership; rank

Context example:

he joined the ranks of the unemployed

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 

Very likely he had spoken to him privately, and had threatened to expose him unless he voluntarily resigned his membership of the club, and promised not to play cards again.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It does not have a continuing membership.

(American College of Radiology Imaging Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Membership includes NCI staff and representatives of NCI-sponsored Cooperative Groups and Cancer Centers, as well as other sources.

(CEP Member, NCI Thesaurus)

One region, in the visual cortex, encoded images, while a region in the prefrontal cortex signaled their category membership.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

The right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership); the right to enter.

(Access, NCI Thesaurus)

It appears that a friend or your membership in a professional or social group will be the trigger to bring you a day of outstanding good fortune.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It also provides for a visualization tool to inspect cluster number, membership, and boundaries.

(Consensus Clustering, NCI Thesaurus)

A voluntary membership organization of physicians that sets standards for the profession of medicine, and is highly focused on medical education.

(American Medical Association, NCI Thesaurus)

Duties include accepts/rejects membership to an account, assigns and edits access permissions and resets/revokes user passwords.

(Account Administrator, NCI Thesaurus)

He spent long hours in the Oakland and Berkeley libraries, and made out application blanks for membership for himself, his sisters Gertrude and Marian, and Jim, the latter's consent being obtained at the expense of several glasses of beer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)