membership

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noun

the state of being a member, as of a society or club.

the status of a member.

the total number of members belonging to an organization, society, etc.

Origin:
1640–50; member + -ship

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membership (ˈmɛmbəˌʃɪp)

—n
1.	the members of an organization collectively
2.	the state of being a member

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Word Origin & History

membership

1640s, "State of being a member," from member + -ship. Meaning "number of members" is from 1850.

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Example sentences

The organization is notoriously difficult to study, thanks to its insistence on

anonymity and its fluid membership.

Group texting is logical when membership has already been delineated-for the

team-mates on a project, for example.

Where community was fate, organization is voluntary membership.

The organization's operations were in the red, and membership was limited.

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"It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been "spoiled" by the party system. Therefore they did not need to refute opposing arguments and consistently preferred methods which ended in death rather than persuasion, which spelled terror rather than conviction."

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